| Melvin Price |
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| CATEGORIES ABOUT CHARLES MELVIN PRICE | |
| 1905 births | |
| 1988 deaths | |
| members of the united states house of representatives from illinois | |
| people from st. clair county, illinois | |
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Price was born in East St. Louis, Illinois , and attended parochial schools there; he went on to St. Louis University . After graduating, he worked for several years as a Journalist before taking work as a secretary for Congressman Edwin Schaefer in 1933 . He served there for ten years, after which he joined the U.S. Army in 1943 , at the height of World War II ; Price served in the Quartermaster corps. He was elected to Congress in his own right in 1944 . During his time in Congress he chaired the Ethics Committee (1971-81), Joint Committee On Atomic Energy (1977-79), and the Armed Services Committee (1981-88). He remained in Congress until his death. Congressman Price is probably most famous for his role in enacting the Price-Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act . He is the namesake of the Melvin Price Lock on the Upper Mississippi River . EXTERNAL LINK |
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