Eamon Rice Explained

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.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dublin North Marriages, 1914 – No. 9. IrishGenealogy.ie. 4 September 2022.
  2. Web site: Edward Rice. Oireachtas Members Database. 13 April 2009.
  3. Web site: Eamon Rice. ElectionsIreland.org. 13 April 2009.