Thomas Lawson Price

Thomas Lawson Price (born January 19, 1809 in Danville , Virginia , †  July 15, 1870 in Jefferson City , Missouri ) was an American politician . In 1862 and 1863 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Price attended public schools in his home country. In 1831 he settled in Jefferson City and worked there as a stagecoach driver and in trade. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1839 and 1842 he was the first mayor of his new hometown; in 1845 he ran unsuccessfully for the Missouri Senate . During the Mexican-American War , Price was named Brevet Major General in the State Militia in 1847.

Between 1848 and 1852 he was Lieutenant Governor Deputy Governor Austin Augustus King . Price was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from 1860 to 1862 . He helped found Capital City Bank and was President of Jefferson Land Co .; He was also involved in the railway business, where he promoted the construction of various railway lines. At the beginning of the Civil War , Price was Brigadier General of the Volunteers in the service of the Union Army .

After John William Reid , a member of the Confederation , was expelled , Price was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he would be on January 21, 1862, when the Missouri fifth seat was due took up a new mandate. Since he was defeated by the unionist Joseph W. McClurg in the regular elections of 1862 , he was only able to end the current legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1863 . In 1864 and 1868 Price was a delegate to the respective Democratic National Conventions . He died on July 15, 1870 in Jefferson City.

Web links

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