Philip L. Rice

Born in Lihue, Kauai, Rice attended Punahou School and graduated from Anderson Academy in Irvington, California, in 1906.

He was an officer in the United States Army in World War I, in the Hawaiian Department, achieving the rank of captain.

[1] He participated in establishing the provisional police set-up on Kauai at the outset of World War II.

During a 1946 sugar strike, he issued a restraining order against picketing by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, which was ultimately upheld by the United States Supreme Court in 1949.

[2] Eisenhower had declined to nominate Rice's predecessor, Louis LeBaron, a Democrat, prompting criticism from Associate Justice Ingram Stainback.