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This Day in Minnesota History

November 29, 1816

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Henry M. Rice is born in Waitsfield, Vermont. At twenty-three he became a sutler at Fort Snelling, running a concessionary store that sold sundry items to the soldiers. Rice later entered the political arena, encouraging Congress to define the state's boundaries and serving as one of Minnesota's first two senators. He died in 1894.

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