William W. Crapo

William Wallace Crapo ( born May 16, 1830 in Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, † February 28, 1926 in New Bedford, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1875 and 1883 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

As early as 1832, William Crapo came with his parents to New Bedford, where he later both public and private schools attended. He then attended the Phillips Academy in Andover. He was also enrolled until 1848 at the Friends Academy in New Bedford. In 1852 he graduated from Yale College. After studying law at Harvard University and his 1855 was admitted to the bar he began in New Bedford to work in this profession. From 1855 to 1867 he was also legal representatives of this city. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1857 he was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts.

After the death of Mr James Buffinton Crapo was at the due election for the first seat of Massachsusetts as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on November 2, 1875. After three re- elections he could remain until March 3, 1883 in Congress. Since 1881 he was chairman of the Banking and Currency Committee.

In 1882, William Crapo gave up another candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. He was also active in the banking industry and in the cotton processing. In 1884 he was a member of the Republican National Committee; in 1897 he participated in a State Commission to recast the legislation for rail vehicles with the tram traffic. He died on 28 February 1926 at the age of 95 in New Bedford.