Henry Rice (politician)

Henry Rice was an American Army officer in the War of 1812, a leading Boston merchant, a member of the Boston City Council and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

Henry Rice was born in Marlborough, Massachusetts onJanuary 1786 to Noah Rice and Hannah Palfrey Rice. He served as an officer in the War of 1812, attaining the rank of major. He married Maria Burroughs of Boston onFebruary 1816, and they had five children. Rice served as a member of the City of Boston Common Council from 1832 to 1834, and in 1838, and served for six years as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He was a trader of imported goods in Boston and lived atBulfinch Street in Bostons Beacon Hill district, but he maintained a substantial estate in Marlborough that he inherited from his father Noah. In his later years, after 1847, he was engaged in the trading of corporate stocks in Boston. Rice died onOctober 1867 at his home in Boston.

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