William P. Price

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William P. Price

William Pierce Price (born January 29, 1835 in Dahlonega , Georgia , †  November 4, 1908 ) was an American politician . Between 1870 and 1873 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Price attended the public schools in his home country and then completed an apprenticeship in the printing trade. In 1851 he moved to Greenville , South Carolina , where he studied at Furman University . However, he dropped out of this course without a degree. Instead, he got involved in the newspaper business. In Greenville he worked for the local daily newspaper "Southern Enterprise" -

After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1856, he began to work in Greenville in his new profession. During the Civil War he served as a sergeant in a South Carolina unit that fought on the Confederation side . Politically, Price was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1864 and 1866 he was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives .

In 1866 he returned to his native Dahlonega. He was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from 1868 to 1870 . In the 1868 congressional election, no candidate was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of Georgia . Thus a by-election was due for this seat, which Price won. On December 22, 1870 he was able to take up his new mandate in Congress . After being re-elected in the regular elections of 1870 , he could remain in the US House of Representatives until March 3, 1873. In 1872 he decided not to run again.

In the years 1877 and 1879 and again from 1894 to 1895 he was again a member of the House of Representatives from Georgia; from 1880 to 1881 Price was a member of the State Senate . In 1880 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Cincinnati , where Winfield Scott Hancock was nominated as a presidential candidate. Price was also the curator of the North Georgia Agricultural College from 1870 to 1908 . Otherwise he practiced as a lawyer again. William Price died on November 4, 1908 in his native Dahlonega.

Web links

  • William P. Price in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)