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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkRichard CROWLEY
(1836-1908)
CROWLEY, Richard, a
Representative from New York; born in Pendleton, near Lockport,
Niagara County, N.Y., December 14, 1836; attended the public
schools and Lockport Union School; studied law; was admitted to the
bar in 1860 and commenced practice in Lockport; city attorney of
Lockport in 1865 and 1866; admitted to practice before the Supreme
Court of the United States in 1865; member of the State senate
1866-1870; appointed by President Grant United States district
attorney for the northern district of New York on March 23, 1871;
reappointed March 3, 1875, and served in that capacity until March
3, 1879; elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth and
Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1883); chairman,
Committee on Claims (Forty-seventh Congress); unsuccessful
candidate for election in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress; resumed
the practice of law in Lockport, N.Y.; appointed by Governor Morton
in 1896 as counsel for the State of New York in Civil War claims
cases, in which capacity he was serving at the time of his death at
Olcott Beach, near Lockport, N.Y., July 22, 1908; interment in
Glenwood Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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