John W. Crisfield

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John W. Crisfield

John Woodland Crisfield (born November 8, 1806 in Chestertown , Kent County , Maryland , †  January 12, 1897 in Princess Anne , Maryland) was an American politician . Between 1847 and 1849 and again from 1861 to 1863 he represented the state of Maryland in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Crisfield attended public schools in his home country as well as Washington College . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1830, he began to work in Princess Anne in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Whig Party . In 1836 he was a member of the Maryland House of Representatives . In the congressional elections of 1846 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of Maryland , where he succeeded Edward Henry Carroll Long on March 4, 1847 . By March 3, 1849, he was able to complete a legislative term in Congress that was shaped by the events of the Mexican-American War .

In 1850, Crisfield was a delegate to a meeting to revise the Maryland Constitution. In the spring of 1861 he was a participant in a conference in Washington at which unsuccessful attempts were made to prevent the outbreak of the civil war . In the elections of 1860 Crisfield was re-elected to Congress as a unionist in the first district of Maryland, where he was able to complete a further legislative period as the successor to James Augustus Stewart until March 3, 1863. Crisfield was an opponent of President Abraham Lincoln's proposed liberation of slaves. In 1862 he was defeated by Republican John Creswell .

After his time in the US House of Representatives ended, Crisfield practiced law again. In August 1866 he was a delegate to the National Union Convention in Philadelphia . Then he got into the railroad business. He became president of the Eastern Shore Railroad , which he helped build. The town of Crisfield in Maryland got his name because of his services to the place. John Crisfield died on January 12, 1897 in Princess Anne, where he was also buried.

Web links

  • John W. Crisfield in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Crisfield, John W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crisfield, John Woodland (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Chestertown , Maryland
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1897
Place of death Princess Anne , Maryland