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Senate Years of Service: 1891-1897 Party: Democrat
BRICE, Calvin Stewart, a Senator from Ohio; born in Denmark, Ashtabula County, Ohio, September 17,
1845; attended Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; during the Civil War enlisted in the university
company in April 1861 and served in West Virginia; graduated from Miami University in June 1863;
recruited a company, reentered the Civil War as captain of that company and served until July 1865,
attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel; studied law at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor;
admitted to the Cincinnati bar in 1866 and commenced practice in Lima, Allen County, Ohio; member
of the Democratic National Committee, serving as chairman in 1889; elected as a Democrat to the
United States Senate and served from March 4, 1891, to March 3, 1897; was not a candidate for
reelection; chairman, Committee on Pacific Railroads (Fifty-third Congress); died in New York City,
December 15, 1898; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, Lima, Ohio.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography; Havighurst, Walter. The World of Calvin Brice. In Men of Old Miami, 1809-1873, pp. 209-24. New York: G.P. Putnams Sons, 1974.
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