Tom Rice
| Tom Rice | |
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Official portrait of Congressman Tom Rice
(R–SC) |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina's 7th district |
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Assumed office January 3, 2013 |
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| Preceded by |
District re-established Hampton P. Fulmer before district abolished in 1933 |
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Hugh Thompson Rice Jr. August 4, 1957 Charleston, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Wrenzie Rice |
| Children | 3 |
| Residence | Myrtle Beach |
| Education | B.S. MA in Accounting, Juris Doctor (J.D) |
| Alma mater | University of South Carolina (B.S., M.A., J.D.) |
| Profession | Businessman, Lawyer |
| Religion | Episcopalian |
| Website | Representative Tom Rice |
Hugh Thompson "Tom" Rice Jr. (born August 4, 1957) is the U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 7th congressional district. Elected to the 113th Congress in November 2012, he is a conservative Republican, supports the right to life movement and thinks the U.S. government has strayed from tenets of the Constitution. He was a member of the freshman class chosen to sit at the House Republican leadership table. Rice was chair of the Horry County Council until he resigned from the position on December 31.
Rice won re-election in 2014. Rice defeated Democratic challenger Gloria Bromell Tinubu on November 4, 2014. He also defeated Bromell Tinubu in the general election on November 6, 2012.
Rice was born in Charleston on August 4, 1957. He was four years old when his parents divorced, and his teacher mother took him and his brother Clay to Myrtle Beach. Rice’s first job was a busboy when he was 12, and he was variously a night shift fry cook, a grocery store bag boy and miniature golf course manager while still in high school. Rice was 16 when his father died.
Rice had a scholarship to Duke University but enrolled at the University of South Carolina in Columbia where he earned a master's degree in accounting in 1979 and a law degree in 1982.
After college, he worked at accounting/consulting firm of Deloitte & Touche in Charlotte where he earned his CPA certificate. In 1985 he returned to Myrtle Beach to practice tax law with the Van Osdell law firm, then established his own practice, Rice & MacDonald, in 1997. He was elected chair of Horry County Council in 2010.
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