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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeEdward Hull CRUMP
(1874-1954)
CRUMP, Edward Hull, a
Representative from Tennessee; born on a farm near Holly Springs,
Marshall County, Miss., October 2, 1874; attended the public
schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits; apprenticed as a printer
in 1890; moved to Memphis, Tenn., in 1892; employed as a
bookkeeper; engaged in the wholesale mercantile business, the
manufacture of harness and buggies, and later in the banking,
mortgage-loan, and real-estate businesses; also interested in
farming; delegate to the Democratic State conventions in 1902 and
1904; member of the Memphis Board of Public Works in 1905; fire and
police commissioner in 1907; mayor of Memphis 1910-1916; delegate
to the Democratic National Conventions in 1912, 1924, 1928, 1936,
1940, 1944, and 1948; county treasurer of Shelby County 1917-1923;
member of the Democratic State committee 1926-1930 and of the
Democratic National Committee 1936-1945; elected as a Democrat to
the Seventy-second and Seventy-third Congresses (March 4,
1931-January 3, 1935); was not a candidate for renomination in
1934; Regent of the Smithsonian Institution 1931-1935; again
elected mayor of Memphis, in 1939; resumed his activities in the
mortgage-loan, investment, real-estate, and insurance businesses;
also engaged in farming; died in Memphis, Tenn., October 16, 1954;
interment in Elmwood Cemetery.
Bibliography
Miller, William D. Mr. Crump of Memphis. Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press, 1964. Reprint, Westport, Conn.:
Greenwood Press, 1981.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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