Eamon Rice

{{Short description|Irish Fianna Fáil politician (1873–1937)}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Eamon Rice

| image =

| office = Teachta Dála

| term_start = February 1932

| term_end = 7 November 1937

| constituency = Monaghan

| nationality = Irish

| party = Fianna Fáil

| birth_name = Edward Rice

| birth_date = {{birth date|1873|4|26|df=y}}

| birth_place = County Monaghan, Ireland

| death_date = {{death date and age|1937|11|7|1873|4|26|df=y}}

| death_place = County Monaghan, Ireland

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| education =

| spouse = Bridget Heneghan

| children = 4

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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.{{cite web|url=https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1914/09865/5583126.pdf|title=Dublin North Marriages, 1914 – No. 9|work=IrishGenealogy.ie|access-date=4 September 2022}}

He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD) at the 1932 general election for the Monaghan constituency.{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Edward-Rice.D.1932-09-03/|title=Edward Rice|work=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=13 April 2009}} He was re-elected at the 1933 and 1937 general elections.{{cite web|url=http://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=1812|title=Eamon Rice|work=ElectionsIreland.org|access-date=13 April 2009}} 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.