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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaWilliam Pierce PRICE
(1835-1908)
PRICE, William Pierce, a
Representative from Georgia; born in Dahlonega, Lumpkin County,
Ga., January 29, 1835; attended the common schools; was apprenticed
to the printer’s trade; moved to Greenville, S.C., in 1851;
attended Furman University, Greenville, S.C., but left before
graduating to take charge of the editorial department of the
Southern Enterprise, a Greenville newspaper; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in Greenville,
S.C.; during the Civil War served in the Confederate Army as
orderly sergeant in Kershaw’s Second South Carolina Regiment;
member of the South Carolina house of representatives 1864-1866;
moved to Dahlonega, Ga., in 1866; member of the Georgia house of
representatives 1868-1870; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-first
Congress to fill the vacancy caused by failure to elect; reelected
to the Forty-second Congress and served from December 22, 1870, to
March 3, 1873; was not a candidate for renomination in 1872; again
a member of the State house of representatives 1877-1879, of the
State senate in 1880 and 1881, and of the State house of
representatives in 1894 and 1895; delegate to the Democratic
National Convention in 1880; resumed the practice of law; president
of the board of trustees of North Georgia Agricultural College
1870-1908; died in Dahlonega, Ga., November 4, 1908; interment in
Mt. Hope Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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