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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Indiana / USMichael Crawford KERR
(1827-1876)
KERR, Michael Crawford, a
Representative from Indiana; born in Titusville, Crawford County,
Pa., March 15, 1827; attended the common schools and Erie Academy;
was graduated from the law department of Louisville (Ky.)
University in 1851; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice
in New Albany, Ind., in 1852; city attorney in 1854; prosecuting
attorney of Floyd County in 1855; member of the State house of
representatives in 1856 and 1857; reporter of the supreme court of
Indiana 1862-1865; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-ninth and to
the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1873);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1872 to the Forty-third
Congress; elected to the Forty-fourth Congress and served from
March 4, 1875, until his death; Speaker of the House of
Representatives (Forty-fourth Congress); died at Rockbridge Alum
Springs, Rockbridge County, Va., on August 19, 1876; interment in
Fairview Cemetery, New Albany, Ind.
Bibliography
U. S. Congress. Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of
Michael Crawford Kerr, Speaker of the House of Representatives of
the United States. 44th Cong., 1 sess., 1877. Washington:
Government Printing Office, 1877.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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