Oliver H. Prince

Oliver H. Prince

Oliver Hillhouse Prince (born 1787 in Montville , Connecticut , †  October 9, 1837 off Cape Hatteras , North Carolina ) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ) who represented the state of Georgia in the US Senate .

After spending the first few years of his life in Connecticut and receiving his school education there, Oliver Prince moved with his parents to Georgia in 1796, where the family settled in the city of Washington . He worked there in the newspaper industry and later studied law , after which he was admitted to the bar in 1806 and began to practice as a lawyer. In 1823 he was a member of a commission to establish the city of Macon , on the grounds of which Fort Benjamin Hawkins had previously been located.

His political career began in 1824 with membership of the Georgia Senate . On November 7, 1828 Prince then moved into the US Senate in Washington , where he took the place of the resigned Thomas W. Cobb after a successful election . His term ended on March 3, 1829. Subsequently, he worked as a writer, was the first railroad conference in Georgia as president and was one of the first shareholders and directors of the Georgia Railroad . From 1830 he no longer practiced as a lawyer to instead become editor of the Georgia Journal ; In 1835 he resigned this post and retired in Athens .

Oliver Prince died on October 9, 1837 aboard the mail ship SS Home , which ran onto a sandbar off the coast of New Jersey and was damaged in a hurricane on the way to Charleston off Cape Hatteras . Before rescue measures could be initiated, the ship was torn to pieces by the surf. The body of Prince, who died along with 89 other passengers, could never be recovered.

Web links

• Oliver H. Prince in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Oliver H. Prince in the database of Find a Grave (English)