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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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1985-01-01 |
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| Name | Melvin "Mel" Price |
| Address | 426 North 8th
East St. Louis, Illinois , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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January 01, 1905
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| Died | April 22, 1988
(83 years)
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| Contributor | *crickets chirp* |
| Last Modifed | ev
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| Info | Charles Melvin Price
born in East St. Louis, St. Clair County, Ill., January 1, 1905; attended the parochial schools, St. Louis (Mo.) University High School, and St. Louis (Mo.) University; sports editor 1925-1927 and newspaper correspondent 1927-1933; member of the St. Clair County Board of Supervisors 1929-1931; secretary to Congressman Edwin M. Schaefer 1933-1943; enlisted in the United States Army in October 1943 and served in the Quartermaster Corps at Camp Lee, Va., until elected to Congress in 1944; director, Edgemont Bank and Trust, East St. Louis, Ill.; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth and to the twenty-one succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1945, until his death in Camp Springs, Md., on April 22, 1988; chairman, Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (Ninetieth through Ninety-fourth Congresses), Joint Committee on Atomic Energy (Ninety-third Congress), Committee on Armed Services (Ninety-fourth through Ninety-eighth Congresses); was a resident of Belleville, Ill.; interment in Mt. Carmel Cemetery
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