Rice William Means (November 16, 1877January 30, 1949) was a
Republican United States Senator from
Colorado. Born in
St. Joseph, Missouri, he moved with his parents to
Yuma County, Colorado in 1887. He settled in
Denver in 1889, and attended the public schools and Sacred Heart College of Denver, CO (now called
Regis University). During the
Spanish–American War, he commanded a
company in the
Philippine campaign of 1889. In 1901, he graduated from the law department of the
University of Michigan at
Ann Arbor, and was admitted to the
bar and commenced practice in Denver. From 1902 to 1904, he was county judge of
Adams County, and in 1908 was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the
Sixty-first United States Congress.