In the 1853 New Jersey gubernatorial election, the Democratic Party candidate, Rodman Price (a lawyer, a purser in the navy, and a delegate to the first constitutional convention of California) received 38,312 votes, or 52.6 percent.
Rodman M. Price 38,312 52.60% Democratic Price was appointed purser in the United States Navy in 1840 and was stationed in San Francisco; during the MexicanAmerican War, he served as an officer of the Navy; prefect and alcalde of Monterey in 1846 and the first American to exercise judicial functions in California; naval agent 18481850. In 1849 he was a delegate to the first constitutional convention of California and unsuccessful in the election for the state's first representatives in Congress. Rodman McCamley Price (May 5, 1816  June 7, 1894) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for one term from 18511853. 
