Sterling Price; portrait of a Southerner by Robert E. Shalhope

He was then elected as a Democrat to the 29th United States Congress, serving from March 4, 1845, to August 12, 1846, when he resigned from the House to participate in the Mexican-American War. He was elected to the Missouri State House of Representatives from 1836–38, and again from 1840–44, and was chosen as its speaker. Following the Mormon capitulation in November 1838, Price was ordered by Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs to Caldwell County with a company of men to protect the Saints from further depredations following their surrender. His report was favorable to the Mormons, stating that they were not guilty, in his opinion, of the charges levied against them by their enemies. They had seven children, five of whom survived to adulthood Edwin Williamson, Herber, Celsus, Martha Sterling, and Quintus.ĭuring the Mormon War of 1838, Price served as a member of a delegation sent from Chariton County, Missouri to investigate reported disturbances between Latter-day Saints and anti-Mormon mobs operating in the western part of the state. On May 14, 1833, Price married Martha Head from Randolph County, Missouri. A year later, he moved to Keytesville, Missouri, where he ran a hotel and mercantile. In the fall of 1831, Price and his family moved to Fayette, Missouri. He was admitted to the Virginia bar and established a law practice. Price attended Hampden-Sydney College in 18, where he studied law and worked at the courthouse near his home. His mother was Elizabeth Williamson, and his father was Pugh Price, whose ancestor John Price was born in Brecknock, Wales, in 1584 and settled in the Virginia Colony. Sterling 'Old Pap' Price was born near Farmville, in Prince Edward County, Virginia, into a family of Welsh origin. 6 Modern assessment of Price's Missouri campaign.He ultimately returned to Missouri, where he died in poverty and was buried in St.

Following the war, Price took his remaining troops to Mexico rather than surrender, unsuccessfully seeking service with the Emperor Maximillian there. Price is best known for his victories in New Mexico and Chihuahua during the Mexican conflict, and for his losses at the Battles of Iuka and Westport during the Civil War–the latter being the culmination of his ill-fated Missouri Campaign of 1864.

He also served as a United States Army brigadier general during the Mexican-American War, and a Confederate Army major general in the American Civil War. state of Missouri, who served as the 11th Governor of the state from 1853 to 1857. Sterling Price (September 20, 1809 – September 29, 1867) was a lawyer, planter, and politician from the U.S.

Sterling Price; portrait of a Southerner by Robert E. Shalhope