Thomas Hartley Crawford

Thomas Hartley Crawford ( born November 14, 1786 in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, † January 27, 1863 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1829 and 1833 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Crawford attended Princeton College until 1804. After a subsequent law degree in 1807 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Chambersburg to work in this profession. In the 1820s he joined the movement to the later U.S. President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party, founded in 1828 by this.

In the congressional elections of 1828 Crawford was selected in the eleventh electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of James Wilson on March 4, 1829. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1833 two legislative sessions. Since the inauguration of President Jackson in 1829, was discussed inside and outside of Congress vehemently about its policy. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act, the conflict with the State of South Carolina, culminating in the Nullifikationskrise, and banking policy of the President.

In the years 1833 and 1834 was Crawford deputy in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. In 1836 he was entrusted with the investigation of fraud in connection with the acquisition of an Indian reservation. Thereafter, he was appointed ( Commissioner of Indian Affairs ) by the new President Martin Van Buren to the Indian Commissioner of the Federal Government. This post he held 1838-1845. He was appointed by President James K. Polk to the criminal judge at the Federal District District of Columbia. This activity he held between 1845 and the restructuring of that court in 1861. Thomas Crawford died on 27 January 1863 in the German capital Washington and was buried at the local cemetery Congress.