Thomas Rice (1768)

Thomas Rice ( born March 30, 1768 in Wiscasset, Lincoln County, Massachusetts; † August 25, 1854 in Winslow, Maine ) was an American politician. Between 1815 and 1819 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Born in present-day Maine Thomas Rice studied until 1791 at Harvard University. After a subsequent law degree in 1794 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began 1795 in Winslow in the former Maine District of the State of Massachusetts to work in this profession. In 1807, he belonged to a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court appointed by the Commission on the review of approved in Kennebec County lawyers. Politically, he was a member of the Federalist Party. In 1814 he became a deputy in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts.

In the congressional elections of 1814 Rice was in the 18th electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Wilson on March 4, 1815. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1819 two legislative sessions. In 1818, he was not confirmed. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Rice practiced as a lawyer again. He died on August 25, 1854 in Winslow.