D. Fulton Rice

RICE, HIBBS, RHEA, VALENTINE, SCOTT

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Date: 2/10/2004 at 05:08:55

D. Fulton Rice
Representative from Appanoose county, was born on a farm in that county September 13, 1889, son of J.F. and Sarah E. (Hibbs) Rice. For short periods attended the state normal at Kirksville, Mo., and Drake University. Taught school five years, the last being superintendent at Dike, Iowa. Read law in the office of H.E. Valentine. Attended law school at the University of Michigan and was admitted to the bar in June, 1917. Was nominated for congress by the democratic party in 1918. Enlisted in the judge advocate general's department of the army and served in the Seventeenth division during the World War. Has engaged in the active practice of law at Centerville, Iowa, since the war. Married Ruth Rhea of Centerville, Iowa, June 22, 1919. They have two children, David Fulton, Jr., and Eleanor Rhea. Elected to the forty-first general assembly. Was not a candidate for reelection but succeeded himself under the constitution upon the death of Hon. Charles Harvey Scott, who was elected to the forty-second general assembly. A democrat in politics.

source: Iowa Official Register 1927-1928; Biographies of State Representatives; pg. 252