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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OregonMaurice Edgar CRUMPACKER
(1886-1927)
CRUMPACKER, Maurice Edgar,
(son of Edgar Dean Crumpacker and cousin of Shepard J. Crumpacker,
Jr.), a Representative from Oregon; born in Valparaiso, Porter
County, Ind., December 19, 1886; attended the public schools of
Valparaiso, Ind., and Washington, D.C.; was graduated from the
Culver (Ind.) Military Academy in 1905 and from the University of
Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1909; studied law at Harvard University;
was admitted to the bar in 1912 and commenced practice in Portland,
Oreg.; was commissioned December 31, 1917, as first lieutenant in
the aviation section of the Signal Reserve Corps; accepted
appointment as captain in the Air Service (production), National
Army, July 8, 1918, and served until December 27, 1918, when he was
honorably discharged as captain in the Air Service (aircraft
production); special deputy district attorney for Multnomah County,
Oreg., in 1921; unsuccessful candidate for the Republican
nomination for Congress in 1922; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-ninth and Seventieth Congresses and served from March 4,
1925, until his death in San Francisco, Calif., July 24, 1927;
interment in Riverview Cemetery, Portland, Oreg.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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