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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Georgia / USCharles Frederick CRISP
(1845-1896)
CRISP, Charles Frederick,
(father of Charles Robert Crisp), a Representative from Georgia;
born in Sheffield, England, January 29, 1845; later in that year
his parents immigrated to the United States and settled in Georgia;
attended the common schools of Savannah and Macon, Ga.; entered the
Confederate Army in May 1861; commissioned lieutenant in Company K,
Tenth Regiment, Virginia Infantry, and served with that regiment
until May 12, 1864, when he became a prisoner of war; upon his
release from Fort Delaware in June 1865 joined his parents at
Ellaville, Schley County, Ga.; studied law at Americus, Ga.; was
admitted to the bar in 1866 and commenced practice in Ellaville;
appointed solicitor general of the southwestern judicial circuit in
1872, and reappointed in 1873 for a term of four years; appointed
judge of the superior court of the same circuit in June 1877;
elected by the general assembly to the same office in 1878;
reelected judge for a term of four years in 1880; resigned that
office in September 1882 to accept the Democratic nomination for
Congress; president of the Democratic gubernatorial convention at
Atlanta in April 1883; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth
and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1883,
until his death; chairman, Committee on Elections (Fiftieth
Congress), Committee on Rules (Fifty-second and Fifty-third
Congress); Speaker of the House of Representatives (Fifty-second
and Fifty-third Congresses); nominated for United States Senator in
the State primary of 1896; died in Atlanta, Ga., October 23, 1896;
interment in Oak Grove Cemetery.
Bibliography
Malone, Preston St. Clair. “The Political Career of Charles
Frederick Crisp.” Ph.D. diss., University of Georgia, 1962;
Martin, S. Walter. “Charles F. Crisp: Speaker of the
House.” Georgia Review 8 (Summer 1954): 167-77.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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