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'''Rice Garland''' (September 30, 1799{{spnd}}August 13, 1863) was an American lawyer, jurist, politician and slaveholder who served as a [[United States representative]] from [[Louisiana]] from 1834 to 1840.<ref name="WaPo">{{cite news |last1=Weil |first1=Julie Zauzmer |title=More than 1,800 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2022/congress-slaveowners-names-list/ |access-date=5 May 2024 |publisher=[[Washington Post]] |date=10 January 2022}} Database at {{Citation|title=Congress slaveowners|date=2022-01-13|url=https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-congress-slaveowners|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=2024-04-29}}</ref>
== 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 [[Louisiana's 3rd congressional district]] as an [[Anti-Jacksonian]] 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 Party (United States)|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.
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