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Erik Wallin is a Republican who made an unsuccessful run for Attorney General in 2010. He graduated from Rhode Island College and Roger Williams Law School. He served as a military lawyer in a variety of capacities before returning to Rhode Island where he worked as an assistant attorney general for five years, until 2008, when he left to open his own law office in South Kingstown.
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