Andrew Price (politician)

Andrew Price
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana's 3rd district
In office December 2, 1889 – March 3, 1897
Preceded by	Edward J. Gay
Succeeded by	Robert F. Broussard
Personal details
Born	(1854-04-02)April 2, 1854 near Franklin, Louisiana
Died	February 5, 1909(1909-02-05) (aged 54) Thibodaux, Louisiana
Resting place	Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tennessee
Political party	Democratic
Alma mater	Cumberland School of Law Washington University in St. Louis

Andrew Price (April 2, 1854 – February 5, 1909) was an American lawyer and politician who served four terms as a U.S. Representative from Louisiana from 1889 to 1897.

Born on Chatsworth plantation, near Franklin, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, Price attended various private schools. He graduated from Cumberland School of Law at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee, in 1875, and from the Law Department of Washington University in St. Louis in 1877.

He was admitted to the bar and practiced in St. Louis, Missouri until 1880, when he returned to Louisiana and engaged in sugar planting. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1888.

Price was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father-in-law, Edward James Gay. He was reelected to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses and served from December 2, 1889, to March 3, 1897.

He was elected to these positions after participating in the Thibodaux massacre which claimed the lives of up to 300 innocent African Americans.^[1]

Price owned Clover Bottom Farm outside Nashville, Tennessee, which he and his wife used primarily as a summer home, and where he raised livestock and thoroughbred horses.^{[citation needed]}

He died at Acadia Plantation in Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, on February 5, 1909. He was interred in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tennessee.

• United States Congress. "Andrew Price (id: P000521)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

Andrew Price at Find a Grave