Thomas L. Price Explained

Thomas L. Price
State:Missouri
Term Start:January 21, 1862
Term End:March 3, 1863
Predecessor:John William Reid
Successor:Joseph W. McClurg
Office2:Member of the Missouri House of Representatives
Term Start2:1860
Term End2:1862
Office3:8th Lieutenant Governor of Missouri
Term Start3:November 20, 1848
Term End3:January 3, 1853
Governor3:Austin A. King
Predecessor3:James Young
Successor3:Wilson Brown
Office4:1st Mayor of Jefferson City, Missouri
Term Start4:1839
Term End4:1843
Preceded4:Position established
Birth Name:Thomas Lawson Price
Birth Date:19 January 1809
Birth Place:near Danville, Virginia, U.S.
Death Place:Jefferson City, Missouri, U.S.
Resting Place:Riverview Cemetery, Jefferson City, Missouri, U.S.
Party:Democratic
Profession:Politician

Thomas Lawson Price (January 19, 1809 – July 15, 1870) was a United States Representative from Missouri.

Biography

Born near Danville, Virginia, Price attended public schools. He moved to Missouri in 1831 and settled in Jefferson City. He conducted stage lines and engaged in manufacturing and mercantile pursuits. He was the first mayor of Jefferson City, serving 1839–1842. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the State senate in 1845. He was commissioned brevet major general of the Sixth Division of Missouri Militia in 1847.

Price was elected the eighth Lieutenant Governor in 1848 and served from November 20, 1848 until January 3, 1853 under Governor Austin A. King. He served as a member of the State house of representatives 1860–1862. He was one of the incorporators of the Capital City Bank and president of the Jefferson Land Co., and actively engaged in the promotion of various railway lines. He became a Brigadier general of Volunteers in 1861 and 1862.

Price was elected as a Democratic Representative to the thirty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the expulsion of John William Reid and served from January 21, 1862, to March 3, 1863. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress and an unsuccessful candidate in the 1864 Missouri gubernatorial election. He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1864 and 1868.

He died in Jefferson City, Missouri, July 15, 1870 at the age of 61. He was interred in a private cemetery. He was reinterred in Riverview Cemetery, Jefferson City, Missouri, in 1912.