Hiram Price

Hiram Price

Hiram Price (born January 14, 1814 in Washington County , Pennsylvania , † May 30, 1901 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1863 and 1869 and from 1877 to 1881 he represented the state of Iowa in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Hiram Price attended the public schools in his home country and then worked on his father's farm for a few years. He later became an accountant at a trading house near Pittsburgh . There he acquired the economic foundations for a successful career as a businessman. In 1844 he moved to Davenport , Iowa , where he started trading himself. In Scott County , among other things, he was a tax collector and treasurer. Price was President of the State Bank of Iowa between 1859 and 1866 . In 1873 he became President of the First National Bank of Davenport . At the beginning of the Civil War , he was the paymaster of the state of Iowa, responsible for paying the troops that were under that state.

Price was a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854 . In 1862 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the second constituency of Iowa. There he succeeded William Vandever on March 4, 1863 , who had not exercised this mandate since September 1861 because of his military service in the Union Army. After two re-elections, Price was able to complete three consecutive terms in Congress by March 3, 1869 , which were marked by the events of the Civil War and the subsequent Reconstruction . It was during this time that the impeachment proceedings against President Andrew Johnson , which had just failed, and the passing of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution fell . Between 1863 and 1865 Price was chairman of the committee that dealt with claims to the federal government from the revolutionary era. From 1865 he was a member of the Committee on Pacific Railroads . For the elections of 1868 he decided not to run again.

After serving in Congress, Price continued in banking and became president of Davenport & St. Paul Railroad . In 1876 he was re-elected to Congress, where he replaced John Q. Tufts on March 4, 1877 . After re-election in 1878, he was able to spend two more terms in the US House of Representatives until March 3, 1881. In 1880 he decided not to run again. In the same year he was selected by the new President James Garfield as Chief Clerk appointed to the Indian authorities. Until 1885 he served as the federal government's Indian commissioner. Then he withdrew from politics. Hiram Price died on May 30, 1901 in the federal capital Washington and was buried in Davenport.

Web links

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

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