Jordan E. Cravens

Jordan E. Cravens

Jordan Edgar Cravens (born November 7, 1830 in Fredericktown , Madison County , Missouri , † April 8, 1914 in Fort Smith , Arkansas ) was an American politician . Between 1877 and 1883 he represented the third constituency of the state of Arkansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

As early as 1831, the young Jordan Cravens came to what was then Arkansas with his father . There he attended public schools and the Cane Hill Academy . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1854, he began to work in his new profession in Clarksville, Arkansas. In 1860 he became a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives . During the Civil War Cravens rose in the army of the Confederate States to the Colonel on.

After the war, Cravens was a Johnson County attorney from 1865 to 1866 . Between 1866 and 1868 he was a member of the Arkansas Senate . Politically, he was then a member of the independent Democrats, a splinter party of the Democratic Party . As their candidate he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in 1876 in the third district of Arkansas . There he succeeded William W. Wilshire on March 4, 1877 . In the following elections he was confirmed as a candidate for the Democratic Party. This allowed him to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1883 .

For the elections of 1882 Cravens was no longer nominated by his party. After his time in Congress ended, he returned to work as a lawyer. Cravens was a district judge between 1890 and 1894. He died in Fort Smith in April 1914. Jordan Cravens was the cousin of William B. Cravens , who represented the state of Arkansas in Congress from 1907 to 1940 intermittently.

Web links

• Jordan E. Cravens in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Jordan E. Cravens in the database of Find a Grave (English)