Andrew Price

Andrew Price

Andrew Price (born April 2, 1854 in Franklin , St. Mary Parish , Louisiana , †  February 5, 1909 in Lafourche Parish , Louisiana) was an American politician . Between 1889 and 1897 he represented the state of Louisiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Andrew Price was born in 1854 on the Chatsworth Plantation in St. Mary Parish. After that he graduated from several private schools. After studying law at Cumberland University in Tennessee and Washington University in St. Louis ( Missouri ) as well as being admitted to the bar in 1877, he began to work in his new profession in St. Louis. In 1880 he returned to Louisiana, where he became involved in growing sugar.

Politically, Price was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1888 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis, on which President Grover Cleveland was nominated for another term; the election was won by the Republican Benjamin Harrison . After the death of his father-in-law, Congressman Edward James Gay , Price was elected as its successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC at the by-election due for the third seat of Louisiana , where he took up his new mandate on December 2, 1889. After three re-elections, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1897 .

After leaving the House of Representatives, Andrew Price withdrew from politics. He died on February 5, 1909 on the Acadia plantation in Lafourche Parish. Andrew Price was married to Anna Margaret Gay Price (1855-1939), daughter of his predecessor in Congress.

Web links

• Andrew Price in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Andrew Price in the database of Find a Grave (English)