Background
Thomas Rice was born November 27, 1734 to Noah Rice and Hannah (Warren) Rice in Westborough, Massachusetts.
Thomas Rice was born November 27, 1734 to Noah Rice and Hannah (Warren) Rice in Westborough, Massachusetts.
He graduated in 1756 from Harvard University studying medicine.
He was a physician, educator and clergyman active in Federalist Party politics serving as a presidential elector in the 1792, 1796 and 1800 elections. Thomas Rice married Rebecca Kingsbury on January 16, 1767 in Westborough. He resided at Pownalborough in Maine, now known as Wiscasset, was a practicing physician and he was elected as a town selectman in 1776.
In addition to elective office, Rice was appointed as a Justice of the Peace in 1764 in Pownalborough and as Judge in the Court of Common Pleas for Lincoln County, serving from 1763 to 1774.
He was also a clergyman and teacher. He was elected to the Massachusetts Senate, serving from 1780 to 1782, and he was a presidential elector for the Federalist Party in the elections of 1792, 1796 and 1800.
Rice served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1775 and 1776 and was a member of the 1779 State convention that, on the part of Massachusetts, adopted the Constitution of the United States, and voted for lieutenant