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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriSterling PRICE
(1809-1867)
PRICE, Sterling, a
Representative from Missouri; was born near Farmville, Prince
Edward County, Va., on September 20, 1809; completed preparatory
studies and attended Hampden-Sidney College, Virginia; studied law;
was admitted to the bar and practiced; moved to Fayette and later
to Keytesville, Mo.; member of the State house of representatives
1840-1844 and served as speaker; elected as a Democrat to the
Twenty-ninth Congress and served from March 4, 1845, to August 12,
1846, when he resigned to participate in the Mexican War; appointed
colonel of the Second Regiment, Missouri Infantry, August 12, 1846;
promoted to brigadier general of Volunteers July 20, 1847, and was
honorably discharged November 25, 1848; returned to Missouri and
engaged in agricultural pursuits on the Bowling Green prairie;
Governor of Missouri 1853-1857; State bank commissioner 1857-1861;
elected presiding officer, Missouri State convention, February 28,
1861; during the Civil War served in the Confederate Army as a
major general; after the war went to Mexico but later returned to
Missouri; died in St. Louis, Mo., September 29, 1867; interment in
Bellefontaine Cemetery.
Bibliography
Castel, Albert. General Sterling Price and the Civil War in the
West. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1968;
Shalhope, Robert E. Sterling Price, Portrait of a
Southerner. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1971.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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