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American politician (1826–1896)

William Whitney Rice

In office
March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1887 Preceded by George Frisbie Hoar Succeeded by John E. Russell Constituency 9th district (1877–83)
10th district (1883–87) In office
1875–1876 In office
1868–1873 Preceded by Hartley Williams Succeeded by Hamilton B. Staples In office
1860–1861 Preceded by Alexander H. Bullock Succeeded by Peleg Emory Aldrich Born March 7, 1826
Deerfield, Massachusetts, U.S. Died March 1, 1896 (aged 69)
Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S. Political party Free Soil Party, Republican Spouse(s) 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 1868 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 relations[edit]

William was a direct descendant of Edmund Rice, an English immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony.[4] He married Alice Miller (1840–1900), whose mother Nancy Merrick Miller was sister to Massachusetts judge Pliny T. Merrick.[5][6] Alice's sister, Ruth Ann Miller, married U.S. Senator George Frisbie Hoar, making Rice and Hoar brothers-in-law. Alice founded a children's day nursery in Worcester.[6]

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

  1. ^ Rice, Franklin Pierce (1899), Worcester of Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Eight: Fifty Years a City, Worcester, MA: F.S. Blanchard & Company, p. 728
  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.
  5. ^ Merrick, George B. Genealogy of the Merrick-Mirick-Myrick Family 1636-1902. Madison, WI: Tracy, Gibbs & Co.,1902, p. 283.]
  6. ^ a b Alice Miller Rice, privately printed commemorative pamphlet, ca. 1900.

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