William Pierce Price (January 29, 1835 – November 4, 1908) was a politician who served in the United States House of Representatives.

[1] During the Civil War Price served in the Confederate States Army as orderly sergeant in Kershaw's Second South Carolina Regiment.

His next appointment as a Democrat to the Forty-first Congress on January 16, 1871, to fill the vacancy caused by failure to elect.

In 1879, a fire destroyed the Dahlonega Gold Mint, which was being used by the North Georgia Agricultural College at the time.

Today Price Memorial Hall is the oldest surviving structure to be found on the UNG campus.

The oldest surviving child, Caroline Price (1860–1936), was a concert musician before marriage to Walter S. Wilson and children ended her career.

The next, Isabella Sterling Price (1864–1931), was considered an excellent actress but as that career was "out of bounds for young girls" at that time, she married William Arthur Charters.

This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress