Frank Rice (January 15, 1845 – December 5, 1914) was an American lawyer and politician.

Life

He was born on January 15, 1845, in

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. He attended Dr. Taylor's private school at

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, Geneva Classical and Union School, and Canandaigua Academy. He graduated from

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in 1868. The following year he began studying law at the firm of Comstock and Bennett in

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, was admitted to the bar and became a clerk in the

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's office in 1870. He was District Attorney of Ontario County from 1875 to 1881. He was a member of the

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(Ontario Co.) in

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and

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; and was Chairman of the Committee on Privileges and Elections in 1883, and Minority Leader in 1884. From 1885 to 1889, he was Judge of the Ontario County Court. He was

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from 1890 to 1893, elected at the

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and the

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. He was a delegate to the

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and

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s. He died on December 5, 1914, in

Sources

Prognosis of election result mentioning earlier defeat of Raines by Rice, in NYT on October 27, 1895

Bios from ''History of Ontario County'' (Conover & Aldrich, 1893, p. 155f), and ''History of Ontario Co., NY & Its People'' (1911, Vol. II, p. 332), at usgennet

Sketches of the Democratic candidates, in NYT on October 2, 1889

Obit in NYT on December 6, 1914 {{DEFAULTSORT:Rice, Frank 1845 births 1914 deaths Members of the New York State Assembly Secretaries of State of New York (state) County district attorneys in New York (state) Hamilton College (New York) alumni Politicians from Canandaigua, New York People from Seneca, New York New York (state) state court judges 19th-century American judges