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Guice was involved in three major business ventures, [[automobile]] dealerships, restaurants, and Guice Farms, which he purchased in 1961. He expanded operations into five states.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.meaningfulfunerals.net/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=210569&fh_id=11269&s_id=4C3ED4F94364F621B42C71BB0ABC84EA|title=Troyce Guice|publisher=Meaningfulfunerals.net|accessdate=October 16, 2019}}</ref>

Guice was involved in three major business ventures, [[automobile]] dealerships, restaurants, and Guice Farms, which he purchased in 1961. He expanded operations into five states.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.meaningfulfunerals.net/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=210569&fh_id=11269&s_id=4C3ED4F94364F621B42C71BB0ABC84EA|title=Troyce Guice|publisher=Meaningfulfunerals.net|accessdate=October 16, 2019}}</ref>

==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.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.​

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He was a former member of the Louisiana Cattleman's Association, the Louisiana Levee Board, and the Mississippi River Bridge Commission. He was affiliated with the First [[Southern Baptist|Baptist]] Church of Natchez.<ref name=Obit/>​

He was a former member of the Louisiana Cattleman's Association, the Louisiana Levee Board, and the Mississippi River Bridge Commission. He was affiliated with the First [[Southern Baptist|Baptist]] Church of Natchez.<ref name=Obit/>​

 

==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>​