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Rice, Henry Mower

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Rice, Henry Mower (1816-1894)

US pioneer and senator. He was a Minnesota territorial delegate to Congress 1853-57 and served as one of the new state's first two US senators (Democrat) 1858-63. He was a US commissioner in several Indian treaty negotiations 1887-88. Minnesota placed his statue in the US Capitol.

Born in Waitsfield, Vermont, he moved to Michigan in 1835 and then to Minnesota in 1839. He traded with the Winnebago and Chippewa Indians and obtained large land cessions from the latter 1847-51.



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