Background
Price was born in Dahlonega, Georgia.
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William Pierce
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Education
Price attended the common schools and was apprenticed to the printer"s trade. Eventually he attended Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, but left before graduating to take charge of the editorial department of the Southern Enterprise, a Greenville newspaper. While in school he had studied law.
Career
In 1851 he moved to Greenville, South Carolina, around the age of 16. He was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in Greenville, South Carolina around the age of 20. During the Civil War Price served in the Confederate States Army as orderly sergeant in Kershaw"s Second South Carolina Regiment.
In 1866 he moved back to his birthplace of Dahlonega, Georgia.
His next appointment as a Democrat to the Forty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by failure to electrical He was reelected to the Forty-second Congress and served from December 22, 1870, to March 3, 1873.
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1872. He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1880.
The iconic Price Memorial Hall with its gold tipped spear is named in his honor.
Membership
He was elected and served as member of the South Carolina House of Representatives 1864-1866. Two years later in 1868 he served as member of the Georgia House of Representatives until 1870. He was again a member of the State house of representatives 1877-1879, of the State senate in 1880 and 1881, and of the State house of representatives in 1894 and 1895.
Charter member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Georgia Delta chapter, North Georgia Agricultural College, Dahlonega, Georgia September
29th 1879.
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Political Party
Democratic party