Henry M. Rice

Henry Mower Rice (November 29, 1816 – January 15, 1894) was a fur trader and an American politician prominent in the statehood of Minnesota.

[2] When Rice was 18, he moved to Detroit, Michigan, and participated in the surveying of the canal route around the rapids of Sault Ste.

He became a fur trader with the Ho-Chunk and Chippewa (Ojibwe) Indians, attaining a position of prominence and influence.

At statehood in 1858 Rice and James Shields were elected by the Minnesota legislature as Democrats to the United States Senate.

An earlier, 1906, marble statue of Rice by Luella A. Varney Serrao was placed in the Minnesota State Capitol.

Statue of Henry Mower Rice in the National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C.
Map of Minnesota highlighting Rice County