Information AboutEdmund Rice |
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Edmund Rice ( in 1841 and master in chancery in 1845; --> Rice enlisted to serve in the Mexican-American War in 1847 and commissioned first lieutenant of Company A, First Regiment, Michigan Volunteers. In July 1849 , he moved to St. Paul, Minnesota and became clerk of the Minnesota Supreme Court 's third circuit the same year. He was a member of the Territorial house of representatives in 1851 . Rice practiced law until 1856 when he was elected commissioner of Ramsey County . He became president of the Minnesota & Pacific Railroad Co. ( 1857 – 1863 ) and of the St. Paul & Pacific Railroad ( 1863 – 1872 ), and trustee of the latter in 1879 . From 1863 to 1877 , he was president of the St. Paul & Chicago Railroad . Rice served in the Minnesota State Senate 1864 – 1866 and 1874 – 1876 , and was a member of the Minnesota House Of Representatives in 1867 , 1872 , 1877 , and 1878 . He was elected mayor of St. Paul and served from 1881 to 1883 , was again elected mayor in 1885 , and served until February 1887 when he resigned to take an office in the Fiftieth United States Congress ( March 4 , 1887 to March 3 , 1889 ). His reelection campaign in 1888 was unsuccessful, so he retired from public and political activities. He died in White Bear Lake, Minnesota , on July 11 , 1889 . His body is interred in Oakland Cemetery in Saint Paul. |