Rice Garland
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Rice Garland (September 30, 1799 – August 13, 1863) was an American lawyer, jurist, politician and slaveholder who served as a
Biography
Garland was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, 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
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.
Later career and death
Garland served in Congress from April 28, 1834, to July 21, 1840, when he resigned to accept an appointment as judge of the
Supreme Court of Louisiana. He served in that capacity, with residence in New Orleans, until 1846. In 1846, he moved to Brownsville, Texas
, and continued the practice of law until his death.
He died in Brownsville in 1863;[2] and was buried in a cemetery at Brownsville.
References
- Washington Post. Retrieved May 5, 2024. Database at "Congress slaveowners", The Washington Post, January 13, 2022, retrieved April 29, 2024
- ^ Find A Grave: Rice Garland
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