Samuel Price

Samuel Price ( born July 28, 1805 Fauquier County, Virginia; † February 25, 1884 in Lewisburg, West Virginia ) was an American politician (Democratic Party), who represented the state of West Virginia in the U.S. Senate.

As a boy, Samuel Price moved with his parents to Preston County in present-day West Virginia. He studied the rights, was admitted to the Bar in 1832 and began to practice as a lawyer in Nicholas County. There he met in 1830 as Clerk, the duties of a registrar and was built in 1833 Prosecutor. In 1836 he moved to Wheeling, in 1838 to Lewisburg. From 1836 to 1850 he was a prosecutor in Braxton County.

Politically, Price operated for the first time 1834-1836 as a deputy in the House of Representatives from Virginia. This house of Parliament, he was again at 1847 to 1850 and 1852. In the years 1850, 1851 and 1861 he was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of the state. In 1863 he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, which he remained until the end of the Civil War; as president of the Constitutional Convention of West Virginia, he served in 1872.

After the death of U.S. Senator Allen T. Caperton Price was appointed to succeed him in Congress. He took the vacant place from August 26 in 1876 and resigned on 26 January of the following year, again from the Senate after he had lost the election to the seat. After he retired from politics and died 1884 in Lewisburg.

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