| 词条 | William W. Rice |
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| name = William Whitney Rice | image name = WWRice.jpg |office1 = Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts |term_start1 = March 4, 1877 |term_end1 = March 3, 1887 |predecessor1 = George Frisbie Hoar (9th) Amasa Norcross (10th) |successor1 = Theodore Lyman (9th) John E. Russell (10th) |constituency1 = 9th district (1877–83) 10th district (1883–87) | order2 =Massachusetts House of Representatives | term_start2 =1875 | term_end2 =1876 | predecessor2 = | successor2 = | order3 =District Attorney Worcester, County, Massachusetts | term_start3 = 1869 | term_end3 = 1873 | predecessor3 = | successor3 = | order4 =Mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts | term_start4 =1860 | term_end4 =1861 | predecessor4 = Alexander H. Bullock | successor4 = P. Emory Aldrich | order5 =Member Worcester, Massachusetts School Committee | term_start5 = | term_end5 = | predecessor5 = | successor5 = | birth_date = March 7, 1826 | birth_place = Deerfield, Massachusetts | death_date = March 1, 1896 (aged 69) | death_place = Worcester, Massachusetts | religion =Unitarian | party = Free Soil Party, Republican | spouse = Cornelia A. Moen died June 16, 1862; m. September 28, 1876 Alice M. Miller | children = William Whitney Rice, Jr., Charles Moen Rice }} William Whitney Rice (March 7, 1826 – March 1, 1896) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. Born in Deerfield, Massachusetts, Rice attended Gorham Academy, Maine, and graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, in 1846. He served as the preceptor of Leicester Academy, Leicester, Massachusetts from 1847 to 1851 before studying law in Worcester. He was admitted to the bar in 1854 and commenced practice in Worcester. In 1858 he was appointed judge of insolvency for Worcester County. Rice was elected mayor of the city of Worcester in December 1859.[1] He served as district attorney for the middle district of Massachusetts from 1869 to 1874 and was a member of the State house of representatives in 1875.[2] Rice was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1885.[3] Rice was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1887). After a failed re-election bid in 1886, he returned to Worcester and resumed the practice of law. He died there on March 1, 1896, at age 69, and was interred at Worcester Rural Cemetery. Rice family and relationsWilliam was a direct descendant of Edmund Rice, an English immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony, as follows:[4]
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Notes1. ^{{Citation| first=Franklin Pierce|last= Rice | title = Worcester of eighteen hundred and Ninety-Eight. Fifty Years a City | page = Page 728. | publisher = F.S. Blanchard & Company| location = Worcester, MA | year = 1899}} 2. ^Hoar, Rockwood. 1897. William Whitney Rice Biographical Sketch. Press of Charles Hamilton, Worcester, MA. Library of Congress E664-R49-H6 3. ^American Antiquarian Society Members Directory 4. ^Edmund Rice (1638) Association, 2007. Descendants of Edmund Rice: The First Nine Generations. External links
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