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Rice Garland (September 30, 1799 – August 13, 1863) was an American lawyer, jurist, politician and slaveholder who served as aUnited States representative fromLouisiana from 1834 to 1840.^[1]

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

Garland was elected from theLouisiana's 3rd congressional district as anAnti-Jacksonian in 1833 to the Twenty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation ofHenry Adams Bullard. He was reelected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress and as aWhig 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 theSupreme Court of Louisiana. He served in that capacity, with residence inNew Orleans, until 1846. In 1846, he moved toBrownsville, Texas, and continued the practice of law until his death.

He died in Brownsville in 1863.

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