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Benjamin F. Rice

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"(May 26, 1828 -- January 19, 1905) Benjamin Franklin Rice was a(n) lawyer, public servant, soldier, helped prepare code of practice for a State, and American politician. Rice was born in East Otto, Cattaraugus County, New York and moved to Kentucky, Minnesota, and then Little Rock, Arkansas. He studied law and was admitted to the bar. He was a member of the state house of representatives in Kentucky (1855-1856), presidential elector on the Republican ticket (1856), helped organize the Republican party in Arkansas, and was appointed chairman of the committee to prepare a code of practice (1868). Benjamin served in the Civil War in the Union Army as a captain and was promoted to judge advocate in the Minnesota Volunteers. Rice was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate (June 23, 1868 - March 3, 1873) and served as chairman on the Committee on Mines and Mining (42nd Congress). [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 - Present', available at https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=R000195]"

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