Caleb Rice

{{short description|American politician}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2011}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name=Caleb Rice

|image=Caleb Rice.png

|caption=

|order=

|office= 1st Mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts

|term_start=1852

|term_end=1853

|predecessor= Board of Selectmen

|successor= Philos B. Tyler

|office2=3rd{{Citation | last=Cutter | first=William Richard| title = Encyclopedia of Massachusetts, Biographical—Genealogical, Volume IV| page = 53 | publisher=American Historical Society (Inc.)| location = New York, N. Y., Boston, Ma | year =1916}} Sheriff of
Hampden County, Massachusetts

|term_start2=1831

|term_end2=1851

|predecessor2=John Phelps{{Citation |last=Davis | first=William Thomas| title = Bench and Bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Volume II | page = 169 | publisher=The Boston History Company | location = Boston, Ma | year = 1895}}

|successor2=Patrick Boies

|office3=Member of the
Board of Selectmen
of
West Springfield, Massachusetts{{Citation |last=Copeland | first=Alfred Minott| title = Our County and Its People: A History of Hampden County Massachusetts, Volume 3| page = 222 | publisher=The Century Memorial Publishing Company | location = Boston, Ma | year = 1902}}

|term_start3=1826

|term_end3=1830

|predecessor3=

|successor3=

|office4= 1st President of the
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company{{Citation | last=Putnam | first=Henry H.| title =The New England magazine| volume= XXVIII|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j7oVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA209| page = 209| publisher=America Company| location = Boston, Ma | date =April 1903}}

|term_start4=June 1851

|term_end4= March 1, 1873

|predecessor4=None

|successor4=E. W. Bond

|birth_date=April 4, 1792

|birth_place=Conway, Massachusetts

|death_date={{death date and age|1873|3|1|1792|4|4}}

|death_place=

|party=

|profession= Attorney, businessman

|alma_mater=Williams College

|spouse= Marietta Parsons Rice (m. 1826)

|children= Joseph Rice (1828–1831); Benjamin Stebbins Rice (1829–1831); Elizabeth D. Rice (b. 1835)

|signature= Caleb Rice Signature.png

|footnotes=

}}

Caleb Rice (1792–1873) was an American politician and businessman. He was the first Mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts, when it became a city in 1852, and the first president of MassMutual Life Insurance Company, now a Fortune 100 company.