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Price, Rodman Mccauley

lawyer, congressman, governor, was born May 5, 1816, in Sussex county, N. J. He was appointed purser in the navy in 1840; and is said to have been the first person to exercise judicial functions under the American flag on the Pacific coast, as alcalde. In 1848 he was made naval agent for the Pacific coast; was a representative in congress from his native state from 1851 to 1853; and was subsequently elected governor of New Jersey. He caused the establishment in that state of a normal school, and did much to improve the militia of the state. He was a delegate to the peace congress of 1861.