Sterling Price; portrait of a Southerner by Robert E. Shalhope

Louis, Mo., Septeminterment in Bellefontaine Cemetery. member of the State house of representatives 1840-1844 and served as speaker elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth Congress and served from March 4, 1845, to August 12, 1846, when he resigned to participate in the Mexican War appointed colonel of the Second Regiment, Missouri Infantry, Augpromoted to brigadier general of Volunteers July 20, 1847, and was honorably discharged Novemreturned to Missouri and engaged in agricultural pursuits on the Bowling Green prairie Governor of Missouri 1853-1857 State bank commissioner 1857-1861 elected presiding officer, Missouri State convention, Februduring the Civil War served in the Confederate Army as a major general after the war went to Mexico but later returned to Missouri died in St. Shalhope thus demonstrates how the private lives of ordinary people played a role in the settlement of public issues.Īs an account of a single town and how its residents responded to change, Bennington and the Green Mountain Boys supplies a fascinating microcosmic view of the larger story of how liberal America came to be.PRICE, Sterling, a Representative from Missouri was born near Farmville, Prince Edward County, Va., on Septemcompleted preparatory studies and attended Hampden-Sidney College, Virginia studied law was admitted to the bar and practiced moved to Fayette and later to Keytesville, Mo. Shalhope writes of class tension, economic competition, and religious differences-and ultimately of cultural conflict and political partisanship-and yet throughout uses individual life experiences to give the narrative piquancy and to emphasize the significance of seemingly small, personal decisions. None of these players anticipated (and indeed did not wish for) the result-the emergence of democratic liberalism. Welcome to My Studio: Adventures in Oil Painting with Helen Van WykHelen Van. Taking Bennington, Vermont, and its environs as a case study, Shalhope untangles the clash among three competing elements in the community-the egalitarian communalism of the Strict Congregationalists the democratic individualism of the revolutionary Green Mountain Boys and the hierarchical authority of the community's Federalist gentlemen of property and standing.

Shalhope examines one of the changes most difficult to gauge and most controversial among students of the period-the rise and triumph of liberal individualism in America-and explores its impact on political culture. Americans who lived between the Revolution and Civil War felt the brunt of resounding and sometimes frightening changes, which together eventually influenced the political culture of early America.

Sterling Price; portrait of a Southerner by Robert E. Shalhope