Rice Garland (September 30, 1799August 13, 1863) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who served as a United States representative from Louisiana from 1834 to 1840.

Biography

Garland was born in

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, and he pursued a basic education, studied law and was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law. He moved to Opelousas, Louisiana, in 1820 and continued the practice of his profession.

Congress

Garland was elected from the Louisiana's 3rd congressional district as an

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in 1833 to the Twenty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Henry Adams Bullard. He was reelected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress and as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses, in which he served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War. Garland served in Congress from April 28, 1834, to July 21, 1840, when he resigned to accept an appointment as judge of the

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Later career and death

He served in that capacity, with residence in New Orleans, until 1846. In 1846, he moved to

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, and continued the practice of law until his death in that city in 1863;Find A Grave: Rice Garland
/ref> He was buried in a cemetery at Brownsville.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Garland, Rice 1799 births 1863 deaths Justices of the Louisiana Supreme Court Louisiana National Republicans National Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives Whig Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana 19th-century American politicians 19th-century American judges