Rodman M. Price

Infobox Governor
name = Rodman McCamley Price


order = 17^th
office = Governor of New Jersey
term_start = January 17, 1854
term_end = January 20, 1857
birth_date = March 5, 1816
birth_place = Newton, New Jersey
death_date = June 7, 1894
death_place = Oakland, New Jersey
nationality = American
spouse = Matilda Tranchard
religion = Presbyterian
party = Republican
predecessor = George F. Fort
successor = William A. Newell
state2 = New Jersey
district2 = 5^th
term_start2 = March 4, 1851
term_end2 = March 3, 1853
preceded2 = James G. King
succeeded2 = Alexander C.M. Pennington

Rodman McCamley Price (March 5, 1816ndash June 7, 1894) was an American Democratic Party politician, who represented ushr|New Jersey|5 in the United States House of Representatives from 1851-1853, and served as the 17th Governor of New Jersey, from 1854 to 1857.

Price was born in Newton, in Sussex County on May 5, 1816. He attended the public schools of New York City and the Lawrenceville Academy (a predecessor to today's Lawrenceville School). Price pursued classical studies at Princeton College, but did not graduate. He studied law and was admitted to the bar.

Price was appointed purser in the United States Navy in 1840 and was stationed in San Francisco; during the Mexican-American War, he served as an officer of the Navy; prefect and alcalde of Monterey in 1846 and the first American to exercise judicial functions in California; naval agent 1848-1850; delegate to the first constitutional convention of California; returned to New Jersey; elected as a Democrat to the 32nd United States Congress from New Jersey's 5th congressional district, from March 4, 1851–March 3, 1853, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1852 to the Thirty-third Congress. He was elected Governor of New Jersey, serving from 1854-1857, where he became the father of the public-school system of New Jersey. He established a ferry from Weehawken to New York and engaged in the quarrying business and in the reclamation of lands along the Hackensack River. Price was a delegate to the Peace conference of 1861 held in Washington, D.C. in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending Civil War.

Price died in Oakland, in Bergen County, on June 7, 1894 and was buried in the Reformed Cemetery, in Mahwah, New Jersey.

See also

*List of Governors of New Jersey

External links

*CongBio|P000529
* [http://www.njstatelib.org/NJ_Information/Digital_Collections/Governors_of_New_Jersey/GPRIC.pdf Biography of Rodman M. Price] , New Jersey State Library
* [http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=d58543f4c9549010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD&vgnextchannel=e449a0ca9e3f1010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD New Jersey Governor Rodman McCauley Price] , National Governors Association
* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/price.html#R9M0JA0NR Rodman McCamley Price] , The Political Graveyard
*Findagrave|6036535|Rodman McCamley Price
* [http://members.bellatlantic.net/%7Evze2rdt7/DGovs/deadgovernorsnj.html#price Dead Governors of New Jersey bio for Rodman McCamley Price]