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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsThomas RICE
(1768-1854)
RICE, Thomas, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Pownalborough (now
Wiscasset), Maine (then a part of Massachusetts), March 30, 1768;
was graduated from Harvard University in 1791; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in Suffolk County, Mass., in 1794 and commenced
practice in Winslow, Maine, the following year; appointed in 1807
by the supreme judicial court of Maine one of the examiners of
counselors and attorneys for Kennebec County; member of the State
house of representatives in 1814; elected as a Federalist to the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Congresses (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1819);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1818 to the Sixteenth
Congress; resumed the practice of law; died in Winslow, Kennebec
County, Maine, August 25, 1854; interment in Pine Grove Cemetery,
Waterville, Maine.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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