The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-02-13
Hon. Andrew Price.

I In the death of Hon. Andrew Pric
which occurred on the 9Th inst. l.,
fourche Parish lost one of it's mo-
? respected citizens and the Third Dis
riot of the State, is called to mour
an hoDored name.
A man of the most tovable of n.
! lures and one whose friendship wa
una.loyed, he leaves behind him til
memory of name that shall eve
call to mind the thought of q Chri.
tian life whose actions had as has
noble and honorable principles.
The Plcayune of Feb. 9th contain
ell the following biography of hi
life
The death of Andrew Price, Will
not unexpected, is nevertheless
shock to the people of Louisiana, VIII,
loved and honored him for his man,
noble quantities, and had the condi
tisn of his death permitted ~woul,
have honored him still more. Ere
Auently mis- name has been brought
forward 10 connection with the gov
ernorshIp, but after paralytic stroke
I that made an invalid on him, he was
compelled to retire 70 privste life,
nursing the hope that some day he
might be restored to his prestine
health ana vigor.
He was born on Chatsworth Plan
tation. inst Mary Parish, April u
1854 His father 5 people were org
inally from Sc. Louis, ha, his mother,
was related to many Of the prominent
families of ST. Mary Parish, and.
through her he was related to the Eos
tiers, the Caferys and other we'll,
known families His early boyhood
was spent on the plantation, but
when IL years Old he went to Leban-
on, Tenn, where he attended the
primary and collegiate departments
of Cumberland University and later
took up the study of law there, grad
uatingln 1875. Aeathen attended
the Law Department of Washington
University in st. Louis, and in two
wears completed the course there. |
He took up the practice of his profess
sion 10 St. Louis, and though young |
man had already won for himself an |
reputation.
In 1879 he was married to miss
Anna NJ. Gay, the youngest daughter
of Hon. Edward j. Gay, one Of the
foremost Louisiana sugar planters.
and they resided in, ST. Louis a year
longer, when they decided to move
to their old home in Louisiana. Mr..
Price gave up law and entered ac-
lively INTO the sugar industry in
with his father-in-law.
The congressional campaign of
1884 in which MIR. Gay defeated
William Pitt Kellogg as Representa-
i've from the Third District, was !
in TINT it marked the
overthrow of Repubilcanism in thasE
district, where i: had been entrenchedl
'or nearly twenty years. Mr. PRICE, +
lad the largest share 10 the msnage- f
nent of that campaign and the sue
'ess attending it was largely attribu-
able to hfyefforts. He became Well |
lnow all over the district and won
many friends by his work in the sub
equent campaigns. When MIR. Gay.
lied in 1889. 1t was natural that his
mantle should fall npon the shoulders
# the worthy young man who had
lone 80 much to redeem the district
rom Republican control. and ia Sep
,ember of that year be was elected to
Ierve the unexpired term in The Fifty
irst Congress. He was subsequently
elected to tn. Fifty-second Fifty
hlrd and Fifty-fourth Congresses.
lie had several contests in the begin
ing, but later on the opposition began
o realize that ITS fight was futile ami
he contests became easier.
During his terms in Congress he
\ came a prominent figure, through
lis marked abilities and his high
minded coarse in all his dealings
nth his eoilsgae. His principal :
ention was devoted TO the interests
f the sugar industry, when then, as
ow, 1t was the football OF the tariff +;
ibkerers. |,
10 1896, when the Legislature me: {
o elect a successor to Senator White.
rho had he"n appointed to the Unit
Il States Supreme Court, though
Blanchard had been ap
o;nted by the Governor to all th.
Interim up to the meeting of the Leg {
stature, Mr.. Price became candi-
ate. That was the year of the free
liver sentiment aud it was also the
ear when the Republicans and Popn- e
SITS, by combination with the CitI-
ems League members from New Or
sans, rallied to the candidacy Of Wa. d
81 D. Drnegre Besides Mr. Price
ire VAS IS candI llstss Senator Bian- {
hard, Walter D. Denegre and Jndgp 7
lackman. The Legislature decided :
, call upon the candidates to express b
leir views on the silver question Mr..
rice had always been a sound mon- q
! man. buI he saw that the free SEN y
ment was sweeping over his party .
70 forest fire. Some Of his friends Il
anted hin to hedge on the question e
! declaring big willingness to do
hatever the people of the State
anted done. He turned to one OF