Rice Garland

Rice Garland (* around 1795 in Lynchburg , Virginia , †  1861 in Brownsville , Texas ) was an American politician . Between 1834 and 1840 he represented the state of Louisiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Both the exact date of birth and death of Rice Garland are unknown. He received a good education. After studying law and being admitted to the bar, he began to work in his new profession. In 1820 he moved to Opelousas , Louisiana, where he also practiced as a lawyer. Politically, Garland joined the movement around President John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay in the 1820s , who were in opposition to Andrew Jackson and his Democratic Party , which was founded in 1828 . Therefore, Garland first became a member of the short-lived National Republican Party and then the Whig Party that emerged from it .

Following the resignation of MP Henry Adams Bullard , Garland was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the by-election for the third seat of Louisiana . There he took up his new mandate on April 28, 1834. After three re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his resignation on July 21, 1840 . There he experienced the final years of the presidency of Andrew Jackson until 1837. During this time, it was mainly a question of banking policy. From 1839 Garland was chairman of the War Department's Expenditure Control Committee.

Rice Garland resigned from office in July 1840 after being appointed judge on the Louisiana Supreme Court . He held this office until 1846. At that time he lived in New Orleans . In 1846 he moved to Brownsville, Texas, where he worked as a lawyer until his death in 1861.

Web links

• Rice Garland in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)