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Elisha E. Rice served as a United States consul based in [[Hakodate]]. He arrived there in [[1857]], but was officially considered a "commercial agent" until [[1865]], after which he was named consul.
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==References==
*Ann Irish, ''Hokkaido: A History of Ethnic Transition and Development on Japan's Northern Island'', McFarland (2009), 89.
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