death_date children birth_date term_end restingplace alma_mater death_place profession preceded term_start spouse name succeeded birth_place party office state district article_title
23 june 1832 thomas -rrb- rice , iii. , rebecca rice -lrb- parker march 30 , 1768 march 3 , 1819 1814 pine grove cemetery , waterville , maine harvard winslow , maine attorney john wilson march 4 , 1815 1814 sarah greene m. 16 february 1841 , d. december 1 , swan 1879 . , d. 26 september 1840 ; susanna thomas rice james parker pownalborough , massachusetts -lrb- now wiscasset , maine -rrb- federalist member of the massachusetts house of representatives massachusetts 18th thomas rice -lrb- 1768 -rrb-

thomas rice -lrb- 1768 -rrb-

thomas rice -lrb- march 30 , 1768 - august 25 , 1854 -rrb- was a u.s. representative from massachusetts .
thomas rice was born 30 march 1768 in pownalborough , massachusetts , -lrb- now wiscasset , maine -rrb- , to thomas rice and rebecca -lrb- kingsbury -rrb- rice .
he graduated from harvard university in 1791 .
he studied law and was admitted to the bar in suffolk county , massachusetts , in 1794 and commenced practice in winslow , maine , the following year .
thomas rice married sarah swan on 22 october 1796 .
he was appointed in 1807 by the supreme judicial court of maine one of the examiners of counselors and attorneys for kennebec county .
he served as member of the massachusetts house of representatives in 1814 .
rice was elected as a federalist to the fourteenth and fifteenth congresses -lrb- march 4 , 1815 -- march 3 , 1819 -rrb- .
he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1818 to the sixteenth congress .
he resumed the practice of law .
after sarah swan rice died 26 september 1840 , rice remarried to susanna greene , daughter of col r. h. greene , on 16 february 1841 at winslow , maine .
to this marriage , he had a son , thomas iii , who was born in 1843 .
he died in winslow , maine , on 25 august 1854 .
he was interred at pine grove cemetery , waterville , maine .
thomas rice was a direct descendant of edmund rice an early immigrant to massachusetts bay colony as follows : thomas rice , son of * thomas rice -lrb- 27 nov 1734 - 21 apr 1812 -rrb- , son of * noah rice -lrb- 1705 - feb 1759 -rrb- , son of : * thomas rice -lrb- 30 jun 1654 - 1747 -rrb- , son of : * thomas rice -lrb- 26 jan 1625 - 16 nov 1681 -rrb- , son of : : * edmund rice -lrb- 1594 - 3 may 1663 -rrb-
