Andrew Price was a U.S. Representative

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 from Louisiana

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Born on Chatsworth plantation, near Franklin, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, Price attended various private schools.
He was graduated from Cumberland School of Law

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 at Cumberland University

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, Lebanon, Tennessee

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, in 1875 and from the law department of Washington University, St. Louis

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, Missouri

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, in 1877.
He was admitted to the bar and practiced in St. Louis 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

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 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 died at Acadia plantation, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana

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, on February 5, 1909.
He was interred in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tennessee

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