Thomas Rice was a U.S. Representative

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 from Massachusetts

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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

Harvard University

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 in 1791. He studied law and was admitted to the bar

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 in Suffolk County, Massachusetts

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, in 1794 and commenced practice in Winslow, Maine

Winslow, Maine

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, 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

Massachusetts House of Representatives

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 in 1814.

Rice was elected as a Federalist

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 to the Fourteenth

14th United States Congress

- Senate :* President: Vacant* President pro tempore: John Gaillard of South Carolina, first elected December 4, 1815- House of Representatives :* Speaker: Henry Clay of Kentucky-Members:This list is arranged by chamber, then by state...

 and Fifteenth

15th United States Congress

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 Congresses (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1819). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1818 to the Sixteenth

16th United States Congress

-House of Representatives:During this congress, one House seat was added for the new state of Alabama and one seat was reapportioned from Massachusetts to the new state of Maine. For the beginning of the next congress, six more seats from Massachusetts would be reapportioned to...

 Congress. He resumed the practice of law. After Sarah Swan Rice died 26 September 1840, Rice remarried to Susanna Greene, daughter of Col R. H. Greene, on 16 February 1841 at Winslow, Maine

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. 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

Waterville, Maine

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Thomas Rice was a direct descendant of Edmund Rice

Edmund Rice (1638)

Edmund Rice , was an early immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony who was born in Suffolk, England, and lived in Stanstead, Suffolk and Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire prior to sailing with his family to America. He arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in summer or fall of 1638, presumed to be first...

 an early immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony

Massachusetts Bay Colony

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 as follows:

• Thomas Rice, son of
• Thomas Rice (27 Nov 1734 - 21 Apr 1812), son of
• Noah Rice (1705 - Feb 1759), son of

• Thomas Rice (30 Jun 1654 - 1747), son of
• Thomas Rice (26 Jan 1625 - 16 Nov 1681), son of

• Edmund Rice
  Edmund Rice (1638)
  Edmund Rice , was an early immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony who was born in Suffolk, England, and lived in Stanstead, Suffolk and Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire prior to sailing with his family to America. He arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in summer or fall of 1638, presumed to be first...
  
   (1594 - 3 May 1663)

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