Thomas Rice (1768), Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Thomas Rice (1768)

American politician

Date of Birth: 30-Mar-1768

Date of Death: 25-Aug-1854

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Thomas Rice (1768)

  • Thomas Rice (March 30, 1768 – August 25, 1854) was a U.S.
  • Representative from Massachusetts. Thomas Rice was born 30 March 1768 in Pownalborough, Massachusetts, (now Wiscasset, Maine), to Thomas Rice and Rebecca (Kingsbury) Rice.
  • He graduated from Harvard University in 1791.
  • He studied law and was admitted to the bar in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, in 1794 and commenced practice in Winslow, Maine, the following year.
  • Thomas Rice married Sarah Swan on 22 October 1796.
  • He was appointed in 1807 by the supreme judicial court of Maine one of the examiners of counselors and attorneys for Kennebec County.
  • He served as member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1814. Rice was elected as a Federalist to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Congresses (March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1819).
  • He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1818 to the Sixteenth Congress.
  • He resumed the practice of law.
  • After Sarah Swan Rice died 26 September 1840, Rice remarried to Susanna Greene, daughter of Col R.
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  • Greene, on 16 February 1841 at Winslow, Maine.
  • To this marriage, he had a son, Thomas III, who was born in 1843.
  • He died in Winslow, Maine, on 25 August 1854.
  • He was interred at Pine Grove Cemetery, Waterville, Maine. Thomas Rice was a direct descendant of Edmund Rice an early immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony as follows: Thomas Rice, son ofThomas Rice (27 Nov 1734 - 21 Apr 1812), son of Noah Rice (1705 - Feb 1759), son ofThomas Rice (30 Jun 1654 - 1747), son of Thomas Rice (26 Jan 1625 - 16 Nov 1681), son ofEdmund Rice (1594 - 3 May 1663)

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