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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriThomas Lawson PRICE
(1809-1870)
PRICE, Thomas Lawson, a
Representative from Missouri; born near Danville, Va., on January
19, 1809; attended the country schools; moved to Missouri in 1831
and settled in Jefferson City; conducted stage lines and engaged in
manufacturing and mercantile pursuits; first mayor of Jefferson
City 1839-1842; unsuccessful candidate for the State senate in
1845; commissioned brevet major general of the Sixth Division of
Missouri Militia in 1847; elected Lieutenant Governor in 1849;
member of the State house of representatives 1860-1862; was one of
the incorporators of the Capital City Bank and president of the
Jefferson Land Co.; actively engaged in the promotion of various
railway lines; brigadier general of Volunteers in 1861 and 1862;
elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-seventh Congress to fill the
vacancy caused by the expulsion of John W. Reid and served from
January 21, 1862, to March 3, 1863; unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress; delegate to the
Democratic National Convention in 1864 and 1868; died in Jefferson
City, Mo., July 15, 1870; interment in a private cemetery;
reinterment in Riverview Cemetery, Jefferson City, Mo., in
1912.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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