Preceded by Thomas Ewing, Jr. Signature Succeeded by Frank H. Hurd Resting place Oakwood Cemetery Name John Rice | Spouse(s) Sarah Wilson Role U.S. representative Resigned March 3, 1883 Children two Political party Republican Party | |
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Born June 23, 1832
Lower Sandusky, Ohio ( 1832-06-23 ) Alma mater Oberlin College
University of Michigan Medical School
Jefferson Medical College Died January 14, 1893, Fremont, Ohio, United States Education University of Michigan, Oberlin College | ||
Battles and wars American Civil War | ||
John Birchard Rice (June 23, 1832 – January 14, 1893) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.
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Biography
Born in Fremont, Ohio, Rice attended the common schools of Lower Sandusky (now Fremont) and Oberlin College, Ohio. He graduated from the medical department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1857. He took a post-graduate course at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and at Bellevue Hospital, New York City in 1859. He was a lecturer on military surgery and obstetrics in the Charity Hospital Medical College and the medical department of the University of Wooster in Cleveland, Ohio.
Rice served on the medical staff during the Civil War as assistant surgeon of the Tenth and then as surgeon of the Seventy-second regiments of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was also surgeon in chief of a division in the Fifteenth Army Corps and of the District of Memphis.
After the war, he was appointed a trustee of the state hospital in Toledo, Ohio. He served as member of the Board of Health of Fremont, Ohio.
Rice was elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1883). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1882. He engaged in the practice of medicine in Fremont. He died in Fremont, and was interred in Oakwood Cemetery. He died from Bright's disease.
Family
Rice was the second son of Dr. Robert S. and Eliza Ann (Caldwell) Rice. He was married to Sarah Wilson on December 12, 1861. They had two children named Lizzie, born 1865, and Wilson, born 1875.