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'''Jesse Dashiell Price''' ([[August 15]], [[1863]] – [[May 14]], [[1939]]) was a Congressman for the 1^st congressional district of [[Maryland]] who served two full terms and one partial term from 1914 to 1919.▼

Price was born in [[Whitehaven, Maryland]], and engaged in mercantile and manufacturing enterprises and in banking. He served as a member of the city council of [[Salisbury, Maryland]], in 1903, and as treasurer of [[Wicomico County, Maryland]], from 1903 to 1907. He served in the [[Maryland State Senate]] from 1908 to 1916 and served as president of the senate and ex officio [[Lieutenant Governor]] from 1912-1916, when he resigned to enter Congress.▼

Price was elected as a Democrat to Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of [[J. Harry Covington]], serving the [[United States House of Representatives, Maryland District 1|1st Congressional district]] of Maryland from [[November 3]], 1914 to [[March 3]], 1919, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918. He resumed his former business pursuits, and later served as a member of the Maryland State tax commission from 1923 to 1935. He died at [[Ocean City, Maryland]], and is interred in Parsons Cemetery of Salisbury.▼