Hiram Price
| Hiram Price | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa's 2nd district |
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In office March 4, 1863 – March 3, 1869 March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1881 |
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| Preceded by |
William Vandever John Q. Tufts |
| Succeeded by |
William Smyth Sewall S. Farwell |
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| Born | January 10, 1814 Washington County, Pennsylvania, US |
| Died | May 30, 1901 (aged 87) Washington, D.C., US |
| Political party | Republican |
| Profession | Politician, Banker, Merchant, Bookkeeper, Bank President, Railroad President |
Hiram Price (January 10, 1814 – May 30, 1901) was a nineteenth-century banker, merchant, bookkeeper, bank president, railroad president, and five-term Republican congressman from Iowa's 2nd congressional district.
Born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, Price attended common schools as a child and engaged in agricultural pursuits on his father’s farm for several years. He worked as a bookkeeper for a large commission house near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and equipped himself for mercantile life. He moved to Davenport, Iowa in 1844 where he engaged in the mercantile business, served as collector, treasurer and recorder of Scott County, Iowa and was president of the State Bank of Iowa from 1859 to 1866. He was one of fifteen men to sign the Articles of Incorporation for the Oakdale Cemetery Company on May 14, 1856.
At the outbreak of the Civil War, Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood appointed Price paymaster general of Iowa troops to whom he advanced large sums of money.
In 1862, he was elected as a Republican to represent Iowa's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. He served three consecutive terms, from 1863 to 1869. During that period, he served as chairman of the Committee on Revolutionary Claims from 1863 to 1865 and of the Committee on Pacific Railroads from 1865 to 1869.
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