John H. Rice

John Hovey Rice ( born February 5, 1816 in Mount Vernon, Kennebec County, Massachusetts, † March 14, 1911 in Chicago, Illinois ) was an American politician. Between 1863 and 1867 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Rice was born in 1816 in Mount Vernon, which was still part of Massachusetts at that time. Since 1820 the place is located in the then newly created State of Maine. He attended the common schools and then worked 1831-1841 in the Land Registry Office in Augusta. In addition, Rice has been involved in trade. At times, he was also deputy sheriff in his home. During a border dispute with Canada in 1838, the so-called Aroostook War, he was on the staff of General Bachelor. 1843 John Rice pulled into the Piscataquis County.

After studying law and its made ​​in 1848 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession. Between 1852 and 1860 he was district attorney in Piscataquis County. Politically, Rice was a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854. In 1856 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, was nominated on the John Charles Frémont was the first presidential candidate of the party.

1860 Rice was in the fifth electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Stephen Coburn on March 4, 1861. After he was elected in 1862 and 1864 in the fourth district again in Congress, he was able to attend three consecutive legislative periods 1867 to March 3. On 4 March 1863 he took over from Anson Morrill, who had been represented the fourth district of Maine in the House of Representatives. Rice's time in Congress was overshadowed by the civil war and its consequences. In 1865 the 13th Amendment was ratified, abolished slavery. Since 1863, Rice was chairman of the Committee on public properties.

In 1866, John Rice declined to run again for Congress. Until 1871 he worked at the customs authority at the port of Bangor. Then he moved to the federal capital, Washington, where he practiced for twelve years as a lawyer. In 1884 he moved to New York City. There he practiced until 1899 continued as a lawyer. In May 1899 he moved to Chicago, where he spent his twilight years. There he died on 14 March 1911 at the age of 95 years.

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