John Crawford Crosby

John Crawford Crosby ( born June 15, 1859 in Sheffield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, † October 14, 1943 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1891 and 1893 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Crosby attended the public schools in Pittsfield and then the Eastman Business College in Poughkeepsie (New York). After a subsequent law degree from the Law School of Boston University and his 1882 was admitted to the bar he began in Pittsfield to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1884 and 1890 he sat in the school board of the city of Pittsfield. In the years 1886 and 1887 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts; 1888 to 1889 he was a member of the State Senate. He was also director of a bank and at a fire or life insurance company.

In the congressional elections of 1890 Crosby was in the twelfth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Francis W. Rockwell on March 4, 1891. Since he has not been confirmed in 1892, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1893. In the years 1894 and 1895, Crosby served as mayor of the city of Pittsfield. In July 1896 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, at the William Jennings Bryan was first nominated as a presidential candidate. Between 1896 and 1900 he was a legal representative of his hometown of Pittsfield; 1905 to 1913, he served as a judge at Superior Court Afterwards he was, until his retirement on October 1, 1937 Judge of the Supreme Judicial Court Massachusetts John Crosby died on October 14, 1943 in Pittsfield, where he was also buried.