Samuel Price

This article deals with the politician Samuel Price, for the pianist of the same name see Sammy Price .

Samuel Price

Samuel Price (born July 28, 1805 in Fauquier County , Virginia , †  February 25, 1884 in Lewisburg , West Virginia ) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ) who represented the state of West Virginia in the US Senate .

As a boy, Samuel Price moved with his parents to Preston County in what is now West Virginia. There he studied the rights , was admitted to the bar in 1832 and began as a lawyer in Nicholas County to practice. There he fulfilled the duties of a registrar as a clerk in 1830 and became a public prosecutor in 1833. In 1836 he moved to Wheeling , in 1838 to Lewisburg. From 1836 to 1850 he was a district attorney in Braxton County .

Politically, Price was first active between 1834 and 1836 as a member of the House of Representatives from Virginia . He was a member of this parliamentary chamber again from 1847 to 1850 and 1852. In 1850, 1851 and 1861 he was a delegate to the state constitutional convention. In 1863 he was elected lieutenant governor of Virginia, which he remained until the end of the Civil War ; he served as President of the Constitutional Convention of West Virginia in 1872.

After the death of US Senator Allen T. Caperton , Price was appointed as his successor in Congress . He took the vacant place from August 26, 1876 and resigned from the Senate on January 26 of the following year after losing the by-election for the seat. He then withdrew from politics and died in Lewisburg in 1884.

Web links

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

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