Joseph Mark Trice

Joseph Mark Trice (October 22, 1902 – July 3, 1987) was an American lawyer and United States Senate official who served as the 18th Secretary of the United States Senate from 1953 to 1955. He first came to the Senate as a page in 1916 and retired as Republican party secretary in December 1973.

In November 1942 Trice was sent to the Mayflower Hotel under a Senate arrest order to bring Senator Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee to the Capitol for a quorum vote called to break a southern filibuster. Senate press aide Richard L. Riedel recounted the episode in his 1969 memoir Halls of the Mighty.

After the 1946 elections returned the Senate to Republican control, Trice succeeded Carl Loeffler as Republican party secretary.

When the Democrats regained the majority after the 1954 elections, Trice's term as Secretary ended on January 5, 1955, and he returned to the Republican party secretaryship until his retirement in December 1973. In 1975 he was appointed to the Commission on the Operation of the Senate. He turned down an invitation to take part in the Senate Historical Office's oral history program, a refusal the office regards as a notable gap in the documentary record of the twentieth-century Senate.