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| Name | Joseph B. Crowley |
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Robinson, Illinois , United States |
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July 19, 1858
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| Died | June 25, 1931
(72 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
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| Info | a Representative from Illinois; born in Coshocton, Coshocton County, Ohio, July 19, 1858; moved with his parents to a farm near St. Marie, Jasper County, Ill., in 1860 and to Robinson, Ill., in 1872; attended the common schools; engaged in mercantile pursuits 1876-1880; studied law; was admitted to the bar in May 1883 and began practice at Robinson, Crawford County, Ill.; president of the Robinson city school board 1884-1888; master in chancery 1886-1890; elected judge of Crawford County in November 1886, and reelected in 1890; appointed United States special Treasury agent in charge of the seal fisheries of Alaska in April 1893 and served until his resignation in April 1898; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1905); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1904; resumed the practice of law in Robinson, Ill.; served as State’s attorney of Crawford County 1912-1916; died in Robinson, Ill., June 25, 1931; interment in the old Robinson Cemetery.
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