John W. Crisfield
John Woodland Crisfield (* November 8, 1806 in Chestertown, Kent County, Maryland, † January 12, 1897 in Princess Anne, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1847 and 1849, and again from 1861 to 1863, he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
John Crisfield attended the common schools and the Washington College. After a subsequent law degree in 1830 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Princess Anne to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Whig Party launched a political career. In 1836 he sat in the House of Representatives from Maryland. In the congressional elections of 1846 he was in the sixth electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Edward Henry Carroll Long on March 4, 1847. Until March 3, 1849, he was able to complete a term in Congress, which was shaped by the events of the Mexican-American War.
In 1850, Crisfield was a delegate at a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of Maryland. In the spring of 1861 he took part in a conference in Washington, has been tried unsuccessfully on, to prevent the outbreak of civil war. In the elections of 1860 Crisfield was elected as a Unionist in the first district of Maryland again in Congress, where he was able to complete a more legislative term, succeeding James Augustus Stewart to March 3, 1863. Crisfield was an opponent of the proposed by President Abraham Lincoln Emancipation. In 1862 he was defeated by Republican John Creswell.
After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Crisfield again practiced as a lawyer. In August 1866 he was a delegate to the National Union Convention in Philadelphia. In the same year he founded the city of Crisfield. Then he went into the railway business. He was President of the Eastern Shore Railroad, in whose structure he was involved. John Crisfield, died on January 12, 1897 in Princess Anne, where he was also buried.