Miles Crowley

Miles Crowley ( born February 22, 1859 in Boston, Massachusetts, † September 22, 1921 in Galveston, Texas ) was an American politician. Between 1895 and 1897 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Miles Crowley attended the public schools of his home and was then employed as a docker. In the 1870s he moved to Galveston, Texas, where he was deputy chief of the fire department. After a subsequent law degree in 1892 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1892 he was a deputy in the Texas House of Representatives. The following year, he moved to the state Senate, where he served until 1894.

In the congressional elections of 1894, Crowley was in the tenth electoral district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Walter Gresham on March 4, 1895. Since he resigned in 1896 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1895. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Crowley practiced first again as a lawyer in Galveston. Between 1904 and 1912 he was a prosecutor in Galveston County. Since 1920, he served there as a district judge. He died on September 22, 1921 in Galveston, where he was also buried.