Americus V. Rice

Americus V. Rice

Americus Vespucius Rice (born November 18, 1835 in Perrysville , Ohio , †  April 4, 1904 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1875 and 1879 he represented the state of Ohio in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Americus Rice attended Antioch College and then Union College in Schenectady ( New York ) until 1860 . He then studied law. Between 1861 and 1865 he was an officer in the Union Army during the Civil War . He rose to brigadier general. He took part in General William T. Sherman's Atlanta campaign . Rice was wounded several times and lost his right leg. After the war he became manager of a bank in Ottawa . Politically, he joined the Democratic Party . In July 1872 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore .

In the congressional election of 1874 Rice was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington in the fifth constituency of Ohio, where he succeeded Charles N. Lamison on March 4, 1875 . After re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1879 . From 1877 he was chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions . In 1878 he renounced another candidacy.

After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, Rice went back to banking. He became president of AV Rice & Co. , an Ottawa-based bank. He was also a director at various other companies in other industries. Between 1894 and 1898 he was a pension commissioner for Ohio. In 1899 he moved to the federal capital Washington, where he again worked in banking, but also in other business areas. At the time of his death on April 4, 1904 in the federal capital, he was working for the United States Census Bureau . Americus Rice was buried in Arlington National Cemetery , Virginia .

Web links

• Americus V. Rice in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Americus V. Rice in the database of Find a Grave (English)