William W. Rice

William Whitney Rice ( born March 7, 1826 in Deerfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, † March 1, 1896 in Worcester, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1877 and 1887 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Rice attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick, the Gorham Academy in Maine and then to 1846. Between 1847 and 1851 he was part of the teaching staff of the Leicester Academy in Massachusetts. After studying law in Worcester and his 1854 was admitted as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. In 1858 he became a judge at the Bankruptcy Court in Worcester County; in 1860 he became mayor of Worcester. Between 1869 and 1874 was Rice District Attorney for the central region of the state of Massachusetts. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1876 Rice was in the ninth election district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George Frisbie Hoar on March 4, 1877. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1887 five legislative sessions. Since 1883 he represented there as a successor of Amasa Norcross tenth district of his state. In 1886 he was not re-elected.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives William Rice practiced as a lawyer again. He died on 1 March 1896 in Worcester.