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 Rice
M. Tilley was born in Huntsville. He is a graduate of
Sam Houston State Teachers College in 1919 and of the
University of Texas Law School in 1922. He began his practice
of law in Corsicana in 1922 and moved to Austin in early
January 1927 after having been appointed by Claude Pollard
as Assistant Attorney General. In 1930 he was appointed
First Assistant Attorney General. He served as Legal Advisor
to the State Senate in 1931 and after the session ended
re-entered private practice in Fort Worth. Mr. Tilley
served in the Army in World War I. He has served as president
of two life insurance companies and in the capacity of
director in a number of other business institutions. He
was senior member in the law firm of Stone, Tilley, Parker,
Snakard, Law and Brown and is now counsel to the successor
firm, Law, Snakard, Brown and Gam- bill. Mr. Tilley married
Lucille Kelly of Austin in 1932 and they have two children
Rice M. Tilley, Jr., a member of the above- named law
firm, and Nancy Sharon Snyder, wife of John C. Snyder.
Mr. Rice is a member of the Alumni Association's VIP Club. |
As profiled at October 19, 1979 Distinguished Alumni
Banquet
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