Robert Crozier

Robert Crozier ( born October 13, 1827 in Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio; † October 2, 1895 in Leavenworth, Kansas) was an American lawyer and politician ( Republican), who represented the state of Kansas in the U.S. Senate.

Crozier attended as a boy, the public schools and a private school. He then studied law in Carrollton and was admitted to the bar in 1848. From 1848 to 1850 he served as a prosecutor in Carroll County. In March 1857, he then moved to Leavenworth in Kansas Territory, where he founded the Leavenworth Daily Times, which still exists today as the oldest published daily newspaper in Kansas. He also ran a private law firm.

From 1857 to 1858 Crozier belonged to the Territorialrat of Kansas. U.S. President Abraham Lincoln then appointed him in 1861 to the United States Attorney for the District of Kansas, a position he held until his resignation in 1864. As a result, he sat as chief judge of the Supreme Court of Kansas, before he became cashier in 1867 and Managing Director of First National Bank of Leavenworth.

Following the resignation of U.S. Senator Alexander Caldwell in March 1873 Robert Crozier was appointed as his successor. He took his seat in Congress on 24 November 1873 to the February 12, 1874 true; in the by-election, he joined not to. After the replacement by there victorious James M. Harvey Crozier went back to his legal work, according to Leavenworth. He practiced from 1876 to 1892 from the office of judge of the first district court of Kansas and was also a member of the governing body (Board of Directors ) of the Kansas Historical Society 1886-1889.

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