Joseph Thomas Price
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Joseph Thomas Price (October 12, 1860 - November 7, 1937) was an influential American local politician from High Springs, Florida. He served on the Alachua County Commission from 1915 until his death in 1937.[1] He was instrumental in leading the establishment of the first county hospital, Alachua General Hospital.[2] He spoke in front of the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means in its 1908 to 1909 session in favor of a tariff on Egyptian cotton to assist the sale of sea island cotton.[3] He was the father of John E. Price, a multimillionaire real estate mogul who established the philanthropic John E. and Aliese Price Foundation and funds the John E. Price Eminent Scholar Chair in Cancer Research at the University of Florida's College of Medicine.[4]
References
[edit]- ↑ Florida, State Library and Archives of. "Florida Memory • Directory of Elected and Appointed Officials in Alachua County, 1870-1969". Florida Memory. Retrieved 2025-10-10.
- ↑ Cash, William Thomas (1938). The Story of Florida. Vol. 4. The American Historical Society. p. 470. OCLC 1299413. Retrieved 2026-09-05 – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means; Payne, Sereno Elisha (1909). Tariff hearings before the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of representatives, Sixtieth Congress, 1908-1909 . Library of Congress. Washington, Govt. print. off.
- ↑ "John E. Price Eminent Scholar Chair in Cancer Research". University of Florida Advancement. Retrieved 2025-10-11.
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