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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyStephen CRANE
(1709-1780)
CRANE, Stephen,
(grandfather of Joseph Halsey Crane), a Delegate from New Jersey;
born in Elizabethtown (now Elizabeth), N.J., in July 1709; sheriff
of Essex County; was chosen by the Elizabethtown Associates to go
to England and lay a petition before the King in 1743; member of
the town committee in 1750; judge of the court of common pleas
during the agitation over the stamp act; member of the State
general assembly 1766-1773 and served as speaker in 1771; mayor of
Elizabethtown 1772-1774; was appointed chairman of the county
committee of New Brunswick in 1774; Member of the Continental
Congress 1774-1776; chairman of the town committee in 1776; member
of the State council in 1776, 1777, and 1779; died in Elizabeth,
N.J., July 1, 1780; interment in the First Presbyterian Church
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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