Hiram Price

Infobox Congressman
name=Hiram Price

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width=200px
state=Iowa
district=2nd
party=Republican
term=March 4, 1863 – March 3, 1869
March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1881
preceded=William Vandever
John Q. Tufts
succeeded=William Smyth
Sewall S. Farwell
date of birth=January 10, 1814
place of birth=Washington County, Pennsylvania, USA
date of death=May 30, 1901
place of death=Washington, D.C., USA
spouse=
profession=Politician, Banker, Merchant, Bookkeeper, Bank President, Railroad President
religion=
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Hiram Price (January 10, 1814 – May 30, 1901) was a nineteenth century politician, banker, merchant, bookkeeper, bank president and railroad president from Iowa.

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. 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. He was elected a Republican to the United States House of Representatives in 1862, serving from 1863 to 1869, declining renomination in 1868. There, 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. Afterwards, he served as president of the First National Bank of Davenport in 1873 and president of the Davenport and St. Paul Railroad. Price was elected back to the House of Representatives in 1876, serving again from 1877 to 1881, declining renomination in 1880. He was appointed chief clerk of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1881 and later the same year was appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs by President James A. Garfield, serving from 1881 to 1885. Price lived in Washington, D.C. until his death there on May 30, 1901. He was interned in Oakdale Cemetery in Davenport, Iowa.

External links

* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7460782 Hiram Price] at Find A Grave