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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsAlexander Hamilton RICE
(1818-1895)
RICE, Alexander Hamilton,
a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Newton Lower Falls,
Mass., August 30, 1818; was graduated from Union College in 1844;
engaged in the manufacture of paper at Boston; mayor of Boston in
1856 and 1857; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and to
the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1867);
chairman, Committee on Naval Affairs (Thirty-eighth and
Thirty-ninth Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination in
1866; resumed his former business pursuits in Boston; delegate to
the Philadelphia Loyalist Convention in 1866; delegate to the
Republican National Convention in 1868; Governor of Massachusetts
1876-1878; died in Boston, Mass., July 22, 1895; interment in
Newton Cemetery, Newton, Mass.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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