Rice W. Means

Rice W. Means

Rice William Means (born November 16, 1877 in St. Joseph , Missouri , †  January 30, 1949 in Denver , Colorado ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ) who represented the state of Colorado in the US Senate .

The Missouri native Rice Means moved with his parents to Colorado in 1887, where the family initially settled in Yuma County . From 1889, the young Means lived in Denver, where he attended public schools and Sacred Heart College . After the end of the Spanish-American War , he commanded a company in 1899 that was deployed in the Philippines . He graduated from the University of Michigan law school in 1901 , after which he was inducted into the bar and began practicing as a lawyer in Denver. From 1902 to 1904 he was a district judge in Adams County .

Means first ran for a political mandate in 1908, but lost the election to the United States House of Representatives . Behind the Democrats George J. Kindel and W. J. Crank of the Progressive Party , he came in third with 20.9 percent of the vote. During World War I he served with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army ; among other things, he was in command of the Army of the Philippines in 1913 . After the war ended, he served as a trial attorney for the city of Denver from 1923 to 1924.

On November 4, 1924 Means entered the by-election for the Senate seat of the Republican Samuel D. Nicholson , who died the previous year ; the Democrat Alva B. Adams had temporarily taken his place. Means won the election with 50.2 percent of the vote against the Democrat Morrison Shafroth, son of former Senator John F. Shafroth , and entered the Senate on December 1, 1924, where he remained until March 3, 1927. During this time he was among other things chairman of the Committee on Claims . He also ran for re-election, but lost in the Republican primary to Charles W. Waterman .

As a result, Means, who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan , no longer held any political office. He served as Commander in Chief of the Veterans Organization of the Spanish-American War until 1926 to 1927 and published the National Tribune from 1927 to 1937 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Colorado State Archives

Web links

Commons : Rice W. Means  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Rice W. Means in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Rice W. Means in the database of Find a Grave (English)