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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriGeorge Calhoun CROWTHER
(1849-1914)
CROWTHER, George Calhoun,
a Representative from Missouri; born in Lancashire, England, on
January 26, 1849; immigrated to the United States in 1855 with his
parents, who settled in Dakota City, Nebr.; attended the public
schools until his tenth year, when he became a printer’s
apprentice at Sioux City, Iowa; entered the Union Army in 1862, and
was mustered out of the service July 14, 1865; moved to Kansas in
1866 and engaged in newspaper work until 1873; elected secretary of
the Kansas State senate in January 1869, and reelected in 1871 and
1873; again engaged in the printing and publishing of a newspaper
1875-1886; moved to St. Joseph, Mo., in 1877; appointed deputy
sheriff of Buchanan County, Mo., in 1887; elected city treasurer of
St. Joseph in 1888 and reelected in 1890; unsuccessful candidate
for election in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress; elected as a
Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1895-March 3,
1897); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1896 to the
Fifty-fifth Congress; unsuccessful candidate for mayor of St.
Joseph in 1904; engaged in the manufacture of iron and steel in St.
Joseph, Mo., until his death there March 18, 1914; interment in
Oakland Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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