Oliver H. Prince

Oliver Hillhouse Prince
United States Senator from Georgia
In office November 7, 1828 – March 4, 1829
Preceded by	Thomas W. Cobb
Succeeded by	George Troup
Personal details
Born	1787 Montville, Connecticut
Died	October 9, 1837 (aged 49–50) Ocracoke Inlet, North Carolina
Political party	Jacksonian

Oliver Hillhouse Prince (1787 – October 9, 1837) was a United States Senator from Georgia.

Born in Montville, Connecticut in 1787, he completed preparatory studies, and moved to Georgia in 1796 with his parents, who settled in Washington, Wilkes County. He engaged in newspaper work, and studied law, gaining admission to the bar in 1806 and commencing practice in Macon. He was one of five commissioners who laid out the town of Macon in 1824, and was a member of the State senate that same year. He was elected to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas W. Cobb and served from November 7, 1828 to March 3, 1829 as a Jacksonian Democrat. He was later an author and editor, and presided over the first railroad convention in Georgia, and was one of the first stockholders and directors of the Georgia Railroad. He abandoned the practice of law to become editor of the Georgia Journal in 1830, and retired to Athens, Georgia in 1835.

Prince perished in the wreck of the packet ship SS Home near Ocracoke Inlet, North Carolina on October 9, 1837, and the remains were never recovered.

United States Senate
Preceded by Thomas W. Cobb	United States Senator (Class 2) from Georgia November 7, 1828 - March 3, 1829 Served alongside: John M. Berrien	Succeeded by George Troup

References

• Oliver H. Prince at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Further reading

• Donald E. Wilkes, Jr., The Eponymous Mr. Prince, Parts 1 and 2 (2000).
• Donald E. Wilkes, Jr. "Oliver H. Prince (1782-1837)". New Georgia Encyclopedia (May 15, 2009)

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Name	Prince, Oliver H.
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Date of birth	1787
Place of birth	Montville, Connecticut
Date of death	October 9, 1837
Place of death	Ocracoke Inlet, North Carolina