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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeRice Alexander PIERCE
(1848-1936)
PIERCE, Rice Alexander, a
Representative from Tennessee; born in Dresden, Weakley County,
Tenn., July 3, 1848; attended the common schools in Tennessee;
during the Civil War served in the Confederate States Army with the
Eighth Tennessee Cavalry; after the war attended school in London,
Canada; studied law in Halifax, N.C.; was admitted to the bar of
the supreme court in Raleigh, N.C., in 1868 and commenced practice
in Union City, Obion County, Tenn., in 1869; served as mayor in
1872; elected district attorney general of the twelfth judicial
circuit in 1874; reelected in 1878 and served until 1883; elected
as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3,
1885); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1884; elected to
the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses (March 4, 1889-March 3,
1893); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892 to the
Fifty-third Congress; elected to the Fifty-fifth and to the three
succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1905); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1904 to the Fifty-ninth Congress;
resumed the practice of law in Union City, Tenn.; chairman of the
Democratic State campaign committee in 1929; died in Union City,
Tenn., July 12, 1936; interment in the City Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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