Edgar D. Crumpacker

Edgar Dean Crumpacker ( born May 27, 1851 in Westville, LaPorte County, Indiana, † May 19, 1920 in Valparaiso, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1913 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edgar Crumpacker was the father of Congressman Maurice E. Crumpacker (1886-1927) from Oregon, and a cousin of Shepard J. Crumpacker (1917-1986), who also sat for Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives. He attended the common schools and the Valparaiso Academy. After a subsequent law degree from Indiana University in Bloomington and its made ​​in 1876 admitted to the bar he began to work in Valparaiso in this profession. Between 1884 and 1888 was Crumpacker prosecutor in the 31st Judicial District of Indiana. In the years 1891-1893 he served as an appellate judge.

Politically, Crumpacker member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1896 he was in the tenth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Jethro A. Hatch on March 4, 1897. After seven elections he could pass in Congress until March 3, 1913 eight legislatures. In this time of the Spanish-American War was from 1898. From 1903 to 1911 Crumpacker was Chairman of the Committee on the Census. In 1912 he was not re-elected.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Edgar Crumpacker practiced again as a lawyer in Valparaiso, where he died on 19 May 1920.

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