Economist, academic scholar, and bank executive Emmett John Rice was born on December 21, 1919, in Florence, South Carolina to Ulysses Simpson Rice, a Methodist minister, and Sue Suber Pearl, a schoolteacher. However, when he was 13, the Rices moved to Harlem, New York City. There he was also a research associate at the Reserve Bank of India. Dr. Emmett John Rice was the father of two children, Emmett John Rice Jr., an alumni trustee on the Yale Corporation, and Dr. Susan Rice Cameron, former United Nations Ambassador and foreign policy adviser. Emmett John Rice died of congestive heart failure on March 10, 2011, in Camas, Washington.

Source: New York Times March 04, 2024 06:51 UTC