Q:Facts: - death place: tulsa , oklahoma - jr/sr: united states senator - successor: stephen w. dorsey - party: republican - death date: 19 january 1905 - predecessor: charles b. mitchel - term end: march 3 , 1873 - term start: june 23 , 1868 - state: arkansas - name: benjamin franklin rice - birth date: 26 may 1828 - image: benjamin f. rice - brady-handy . jpg - birth place: east otto , new york Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of benjamin f. rice .
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benjamin franklin rice -lrb- may 26 , 1828 -- january 19 , 1905 -rrb- was a republican politician from arkansas who represented the state in the u.s. senate from 1868 to 1873 .