Daniel Dicks "Danny" Guice (November 30, 1924 – April 13, 2017) was an American lawyer and politician.

Background

Born in

Biloxi, Mississippi Biloxi ( ; ) is a city in and one of two county seats of Harrison County, Mississippi, United States (the other being the adjacent city of Gulfport). The 2010 United States Census recorded the population as 44,054 and in 2019 the estimated popu ...

, Guice graduated from Biloxi High School. He then went to

Tulane University Tulane University, officially the Tulane University of Louisiana, is a private research university in New Orleans, Louisiana. Founded as the Medical College of Louisiana in 1834 by seven young medical doctors, it turned into a comprehensive pub ...

and received his law degree from

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. Additionally, he attended

University of Mississippi The University of Mississippi ( byname Ole Miss) is a public research university that is located adjacent to Oxford, Mississippi, and has a medical center in Jackson. It is Mississippi's oldest public university and its largest by enrollment ...

. He practiced law in Biloxi, Mississippi. From 1956 to 1960, Guice served in the Mississippi House of Representatives. He then served as Mayor of Biloxi from 1961 to 1973. Guice was a

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. From 1977 to 1990, Guice served as a county court judge for

Harrison County, Mississippi Harrison County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 208,621, making it the second-most populous county in Mississippi. Its county seats are Biloxi and Gulfport. The county is named a ...

. In 1980 he appeared on the game show ''

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'' as the leader of the Guice family team, which won $28,659. His son was Daniel Guice Jr. who also served in the Mississippi Legislature.

Death

Guice died on April 13, 2017, at his home. He was 92.

References

1924 births 2017 deaths Mayors of Biloxi, Mississippi University of Mississippi alumni Tulane University Law School alumni Mississippi state court judges Democratic Party members of the Mississippi House of Representatives 20th-century American judges {{Mississippi-politician-stub