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Price was born near Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia. He completed preparatory studies and attended Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced; moved to Fayette and later to Keytesville, Missouri; member of the State house of representatives 1840-1844 and served as speaker; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth Congress and served from March 4, 1845, to August 12, 1846, when he resigned to participate in the Mexican War; appointed colonel of the Second Regiment, Missouri Infantry, August 12, 1846; promoted to brigadier general of Volunteers July 20, 1847, and was honorably discharged November 25, 1848; returned to Missouri and engaged in agricultural pursuits on the Bowling Green prairie; Governor of Missouri 1853-1857; State bank commissioner 1857-1861; elected presiding officer, Missouri State convention, February 28, 1861; during the Civil War served in the Confederate Army as a major general; after the war went to Mexico but later returned to Missouri; died in St. Louis, Missouri, September 29, 1867; interment in Bellefontaine Cemetery.

This article incorporates facts obtained from the public domain Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

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