William T. Price

William Thompson Price ( born June 17, 1824 Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania; † 6 December 1886 in Black River Falls, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1883 and 1886 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Price attended the public schools of his home. He then worked for some time as a store clerk in Hollidaysburg. In 1845 he moved to Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and the following year to Black River Falls, Wisconsin. There he was active in the lumber business and in agriculture. In 1849 he became deputy chief of police in Crawford County. After studying law and its made ​​in 1852 admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession.

Politically, Price was initially a member of the Democratic Party. After the founding of the Republicans in 1854, he moved over to this party. 1851 Price was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly. In 1854 he moved to La Crosse, where he operated a stagecoach line between this place and Black River Falls. Later he returned to Black River Falls, where he practiced as a lawyer again. In the years 1854 and 1859, he served as a district judge in Jackson County. From 1856 to 1857, Price was county treasurer. Between 1857 and 1881 he sat several times in the Senate of Wisconsin; in 1879 he was its president. Between 1863 and 1865 he worked for the tax authority. In 1882 he was again deputy in the State Assembly.

In the congressional elections of 1882 Price was the eighth electoral district of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Thaddeus C. Pound on March 4, 1883. After a re-election, he could remain until his death on December 6, 1886 in Congress. He will be succeeded by his son Hugh was elected, who then ended the current legislative period between 18 January and 3 March 1887.