| 词条 | Americus V. Rice |
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|name=Americus Vespucius Rice |image name=AVRice.jpg |state=Ohio |district=5th |party=Democrat |term=March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1879 |preceded=Charles N. Lamison |succeeded=Benjamin Le Fevre |birth_date=November 18, 1835 |birth_place=Perrysville, Ohio |death_date={{Death date and age|1904|4|4|1835|11|18}} |death_place=Washington, D.C. |restingplace=Arlington National Cemetery |spouse=Mary A. Metcalf Rice |children= Mary Rice, Katherine Rice |profession=Politician, Banker, Businessman |religion= |footnotes= |allegiance= United States of America Union |branch= United States Army Union Army |serviceyears= |rank= Brigadier General |commands= |unit= 21st Ohio Infantry 57th Ohio Infantry |battles= American Civil War |awards= }} Americus Vespucius Rice (November 18, 1835 – April 4, 1904) was a nineteenth-century politician, banker, and businessman from Ohio. He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War and was appointed brigadier general at the end of the war, on May 31, 1865. Early lifeRice was born in Perrysville, Ohio on November 18, 1835 to Clark Hammond Rice and Catherine (Mowers) Rice. He pursued in classical studies, attended Antioch College, graduated from Union College and studied law. Civil WarAt the outbreak of the Civil War, Rice was commissioned as a captain in the 21st Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment on April 27, 1861 and served until his regiment was mustered out of service on August 12 of the same year. Rice was commissioned as a captain in the 57th Ohio Infantry on September 2, 1861. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel on February 8, 1862 and became the regiment's colonel on May 24, 1863. As colonel of the 57th Ohio Infantry at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in the Atlanta Campaign, he was wounded and his right leg was amputated.[1] On January 13, 1866, President Andrew Johnson nominated Rice for appointment as a brigadier general of volunteers to rank from a May 31, 1865 appointment date.[2][3] Rice was mustered out of service on January 15, 1866.[2] The United States Senate confirmed the appointment on February 23, 1866.[2] After the war, he became a member of the Ohio Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States - a military society consisting of officers who had served the Union and their descendants. Postbellum careerAfter the close of the war, Rice was manager of a private banking house in Ottawa, Ohio, was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1872 and was elected a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives in 1874, serving from 1875 to 1879, not being a candidate for renomination in 1878. There, he served as chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions from 1877 to 1879. Afterward, he was president of A.V. Rice & Company, a banking concern in Ottawa, Ohio, was a director in various business enterprises and was appointed a pension agent for Ohio in 1893, serving from 1894 to 1898. Rice moved to Washington, D.C., in 1899 and engaged in banking and other various enterprises and was appointed a purchasing agent for the United States Census Bureau which he served as until his death in Washington, D.C. He was interred in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.[4] GenealogyAmericus Vespucius Rice was a direct descendant of Edmund Rice, an English immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony, as follows:[5]
See also{{Portal|Biography|United States Army|American Civil War}}
Footnotes1. ^{{citation| author = | last = Eicher | first = John H. | author2 = | last2 = Eicher | first2 = David J. | authorlink2 = David J. Eicher | publication-date= 2001 |title= Civil War High Commands | page= 451-452 | publisher = Stanford University Press | location = Stanford, CA | ISBN = 978-0-8047-3641-1 }} 2. ^1 2 Eicher, 2001, p.727. 3. ^President Johnson appointed Rice as a brigadier general on May 31, 1865 but did not send a nomination of the appointment to the United States Senate for confirmation until January 13, 1866. 4. ^{{cite web | url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000194 | title= Americus V. Rice Congressional Biography | publisher=Congress of the United States | accessdate= 31 August 2009}} 5. ^Edmund Rice (1638) Association, 2007. Descendants of Edmund Rice: The First Nine Generations. 6. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.edmund-rice.org/era5gens/p28.htm#i56985 | title= Ebenezer Rice | publisher= Edmund Rice (1638) Association | accessdate= 1 November 2010}} Notes{{Reflist}}References
External links{{CongBio|R000194}} Retrieved on 2008-08-15
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