Rousseau Owen Crump

Rousseau Owen Crump ( born May 20, 1843 in Pittsford, New York, † May 1, 1901 in West Bay City, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1895 and 1901 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Rousseau Crump attended the public schools of his home. He then worked for a few time with his father in the construction industry and then as a ship's carpenter. Since 1869 he worked in the timber industry in Allegan County and Kalamazoo County, Michigan. In 1881 he moved to West Bay City, where he established a sawmill and a box factory.

Politically, Crump member of the Republican Party. From 1889 to 1892 he was a member of the city council of West Bay City and 1893-1895 he was mayor of this place, which now belongs to the city of Bay City. In the congressional elections of 1894 Crump was in the tenth constituency of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Thomas AE Weadock on March 4, 1895. After three re- elections he could remain until his death on May 1, 1901 Congress. In this time of the Spanish-American War was from 1898. Was then that the Philippines and the Kingdom of Hawaii came under American administration. Since 1899, Crump was Chairman of the Mining Committee.

Rousseau Crump was married since 1868 with Phoebe A. Tucker, with whom he had five children. He was buried in Bay City.

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