Edmund Rice (politician)
Edmund Rice ( born February 14, 1819 in Waitsfield, Washington County, Vermont; † July 11, 1889 in White Bear Lake, Minnesota ) was an American politician. Between 1887 and 1889 he represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
Edmind Rice was the younger brother of Henry Mower Rice (1816-1894), who represented 1853-1863 the Minnesota Territory and later the state of Minnesota in both chambers of Congress. The younger Rice attended the public schools of his home and moved in November 1838 to Kalamazoo in Michigan. After a subsequent study of law and its made in 1842 admitted to the bar began to work in his new hometown in this profession. He was also employed by the Court of Chancery. In 1847 he took as lieutenant of a unit from Michigan part in the Mexican-American War.
In 1849, Rice moved to Saint Paul in Minnesota Territory. There he became an employee of the territory on the Supreme Court. He joined the Democratic Party and was elected in 1851 in the Territorial House of Representatives. Until 1856 he practiced as a lawyer yet. Then District was ( County Commissioner) in Ramsey County. Between 1857 and 1863 acted Rice as president of the railway company Minnesota & Pacific Railroad. Until 1877, he was then also president of two other railway companies.
In the years 1864 to 1866 and again from 1874 to 1876 Rice sat in the Minnesota Senate. Between 1867 and 1878 he was several times delegate in the House of Representatives of that State. In addition, he served from 1881 to 1883 and 1885-1887 as mayor of Saint Paul. In 1886 he was in the fourth electoral district of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Gilfillan on March 4, 1887. Since he Republican Samuel Snider defeated in the following election of 1888, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1889.
After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Edmund Rice withdrew from the public. He died in the same year, on July 11, 1889, and was buried in Saint Paul.