Hugh H. Price

Hugh Hiram Price ( born December 2, 1859 in Black River Falls, Jackson County, Wisconsin, † December 25, 1904 in Denver, Colorado ) was an American politician. In 1887, he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Hugh Price was the son of Congressman William T. Price ( 1824-1886 ). He attended the common schools and then studied at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He then worked in the timber industry. In 1885 and 1886 he was in the council of his hometown. He was also the County Council in Jackson County. In 1885, he acted in this district as secretary of the agricultural society. Politically Price member of the Republican Party.

After the death of his father, who was a congressman at this point, Hugh Price was at the due election for the eighth seat from Wisconsin as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 18 January 1887. Until March 3, 1887, he could only finish the current term in Congress. Then the chosen at the regular elections of 1886, Nils P. Haugen, succeeded him.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Hugh Price took his previous activities on again. In 1889, he was elected to the Senate from Wisconsin. In 1894 he moved to Silver City in New Mexico, where he participated in the silver mining industry. After that he went to Phoenix in Arizona Territory. There he spent two years land surveying authority. Subsequently, Price withdrew into retirement, which he spent in Denver. He is also passed on 25 December 1904.