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==Background==
==Background==
Guice was born in St. Joseph in Tensas Parish, to Ivy Eual Guice (1910–1994) and the former Tressie Westbrook (1911–1999), later of Vidalia in Concordia Parish.</ref> Tensas Parish, the smallest of Louisiana's sixty-four parishes, is located along the west side of the [[Mississippi River]] north of Natchez, Mississippi, where Guice spent his later years.
Guice was born in St. Joseph in Tensas Parish, to Ivy Eual Guice (1910–1994) and the former Tressie Westbrook (1911–1999), later of Vidalia in Concordia Parish.Tensas Parish, the smallest of Louisiana's sixty-four parishes, is located along the west side of the [[Mississippi River]] north of Natchez, Mississippi, where Guice spent his later years.
Guice graduated from the former Joseph Moore Davidson High School, which was then [[Segregation|segregated]]; the institution is now known as Tensas High School. He attended the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. He served in the United States National Guard.<ref name=Obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080402/OBITUARIES/80401042/1023|title=Troyce E. Guice|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk|accessdate=April 2, 2008; no longer on-line}}</ref>
Guice graduated from the former Joseph Moore Davidson High School, which was then [[Segregation|segregated]]; the institution is now known as Tensas High School. He attended the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. He served in the United States National Guard.<ref name=Obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080402/OBITUARIES/80401042/1023|title=Troyce E. Guice|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk|accessdate=April 2, 2008; no longer on-line}}</ref>
==Political activities==
==Political activities==
In 1966, Guice challenged entrenched U.S. Senator [[Allen J. Ellender]] of Houma in Terrebonne Parish in south Louisiana. A liberal candidate who supported the [[civil rights]] agenda also entered the race, then state Senator J.D. DeBlieux, a Caldwell Parish native who represented a [[Baton Rouge]]-area district. Ellender swept to his sixth and, as it turned out, last term. Guice, unable to gain sufficient name recognition, finished last in the race with some 74,000 votes (11 percent).<ref>''Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report's Guide to U.S. Elections, Senate primary elections, 1966.''</ref>
In 1966, Guice challenged entrenched U.S. Senator [[Allen J. Ellender]] of Houma in Terrebonne Parish in south Louisiana. A liberal candidate who supported the [[civil rights]] agenda also entered the race, then state Senator J.D. DeBlieux, a Caldwell Parish native who represented a [[Baton Rouge]]-area district. Ellender swept to his sixth and, as it turned out, last term. Guice, unable to gain sufficient name recognition, finished last in the race with some 74,000 votes (11 percent).<ref>''Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report's Guide to U.S. Elections, Senate primary elections, 1966.''</ref>