William W. Rice

William Whitney Rice
Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts
In office
March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1887
Preceded by George Frisbie Hoar (9th)
Amasa Norcross (10th)
Succeeded by Theodore Lyman (9th)
John E. Russell (10th)
Constituency 9th district (1877–83)
10th district (1883–87)
Massachusetts House of Representatives
In office
1875–1876
District Attorney
Worcester, County, Massachusetts
In office
1869–1873
Mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts
In office
1860–1861
Preceded by Alexander H. Bullock
Succeeded by P. Emory Aldrich
Member Worcester, Massachusetts
School Committee
Personal details
Born March 7, 1826
Deerfield, Massachusetts
Died March 1, 1896 (aged 69)
Worcester, Massachusetts
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 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 relations

William was a direct descendant of Edmund Rice, an English immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony, as follows:[4]

  • William Whitney Rice, son of
  • Benjamin Rice (1784–1847), son of
  • Caleb Rice (1755–1809), son of
  • Benjamin Rice (1722–1796), son of
  • Azariah Rice (1693–1779), son of
  • Benjamin Rice (1666–1749), son of
  • Edward Rice (1622–1712), son of

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website http://bioguide.congress.gov.

Notes

  1. ↑ Rice, Franklin Pierce (1899), Worcester of eighteen hundred and Ninety-Eight. Fifty Years a City, Worcester, MA: F.S. Blanchard & Company, p. Page 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.
  • United States Congress. "William W. Rice (id: R000205)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
  • William W. Rice at Find a Grave
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by
George F. Hoar		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 9th congressional district
March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1883		 Succeeded by
Theodore Lyman
Preceded by
Amasa Norcross		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 10th congressional district
March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1887		 Succeeded by
John E. Russell
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