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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaEdgar Dean CRUMPACKER
(1851-1920)
CRUMPACKER, Edgar Dean,
(father of Maurice Edgar Crumpacker and cousin of Shepard J.
Crumpacker, Jr.), a Representative from Indiana; born in Westville,
La Porte County, Ind., May 27, 1851; attended the common schools
and Valparaiso Academy, Valparaiso, Ind.; studied law in the law
department of Indiana University at Bloomington; was admitted to
the bar in 1876 and commenced practice in Valparaiso, Ind.;
prosecuting attorney for the thirty-first judicial district of
Indiana 1884-1888; served as appellate judge, by appointment of
Governor Hovey, from March 1891 to January 1, 1893; elected as a
Republican to the Fifty-fifth and to the seven succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1913); chairman, Committee on
the Census (Fifty-eighth through Sixty-first Congresses);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1912 to the Sixty-third
Congress; resumed the practice of law in Valparaiso, Porter County,
Ind., where he died May 19, 1920; interment in Graceland
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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