The Rev. John Wesley Rice, Jr. rose from the segregated South to become a minister and university leader. Dr. Rice was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He worked as a Presbyterian minister, teacher and coach at a high school in Birmingham, Alabama before becoming dean of students at Stillman College in Tuscaloosa. In 1969, he became a professor and assistant vice chancellor of the University of Denver. He is the father of Condoleezza Rice, who was selected by former President George W. Bush to be his national security adviser, and went on to serve as secretary of state.
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