Hiram Price

Hiram Price ( born January 14, 1814 Washington County, Pennsylvania, † May 30 1901 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1863 and 1869, and from 1877 to 1881, he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Hiram Price attended the common schools and then worked for several years on his father's farm. Later, he was an accountant of a trading house near Pittsburgh. There he acquired the economic foundations for a successful career as a businessman. In 1844, he moved to Davenport in Iowa Territory, where he was engaged in trade. In Scott County, he served as tax collector and treasurer. Between 1859 and 1866, Price President of the State Bank of Iowa. In 1873 he became president of the First National Bank of Davenport. At the beginning of the Civil War he served as paymaster of the State of Iowa for the payment of the troops, who were under that State responsible.

Price was a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854. In 1862 he was elected in the second district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he met on March 4, 1863 the successor of William Vandever, who had not exercised this mandate since September 1861 because of his military service in the Union Army. After two elections Price was able to complete in 1869 three contiguous legislatures in Congress until March 3, which were shaped by the events of the Civil War and the subsequent Reconstruction. In this time were the barely lost the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson and the adoption of the 13th Amendment. Between 1863 and 1865, Price was chairman of the committee that dealt with claims to the federal government from the revolutionary period. Since 1865 he was a member of the Committee on Pacific Railroads. For the elections of 1868 he abandoned a bid again.

After his time in Congress, Price was still active in the banking business and became president of the railway company Davenport & St. Paul Railroad. In 1876 he was again elected to Congress, where he replaced John Q. Tufts on March 4, 1877. After a re-election in 1878, he could spend up to March 3, 1881 two other legislatures in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1880, he opted not to run again. In the same year he was appointed by the new President James Garfield as Chief Clerk in the Indian agency. Until 1885 he served as Indian commissioner of the federal government. After he retired from politics. Hiram Price died on 30 May 1901 in the German capital Washington and was buried in Davenport.