Eamon Rice | |
Office: | Teachta Dála |
Term Start: | February 1932 |
Term End: | 7 November 1937 |
Constituency: | Monaghan |
Party: | Fianna Fáil |
Birth Name: | Edward Rice |
Birth Date: | 26 April 1873 |
Birth Place: | County Monaghan, Ireland |
Death Place: | County Monaghan, Ireland |
Spouse: | Bridget Heneghan |
Children: | 4 |
Eamon Rice (26 April 1873 – 7 November 1937) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician. A national school teacher, he married Bridget Heneghan on 1 September 1914, and they had four children.[1]
He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD) at the 1932 general election for the Monaghan constituency.[2] He was re-elected at the 1933 and 1937 general elections.[3] He died while still in office in 1937. No by-election was held to fill his seat, but his widow Bridget Rice was elected as a TD for the same constituency from 1938 to 1954.