Thomas Lawson Price (January 19, 1809 – July 15, 1870) was a

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from

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Biography

Born near

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, 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

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in 1848 and served from November 20, 1848 until January 3, 1853 under Governor

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. 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

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to fill the vacancy caused by the expulsion of

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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

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and

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. He died in

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

, in 1912.

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