Martin Jenkins Crawford

Martin Jenkins Crawford

Martin Jenkins Crawford (born March 17, 1820 in Jasper County , Georgia , † July 23, 1883 in Columbus , Georgia) was an American politician of the Democratic Party .

Career

Martin Jenkins Crawford attended the Brownwood Institute and Mercer University in Macon . He then studied law , was admitted to the bar in 1839 and opened his own practice in Hamilton . He was also active in agriculture.

Crawford decided to embark on a political career in 1845 by being elected to the Georgia House of Representatives, where he remained until 1847. He then moved to Columbus in 1849. He was also a member of the Southern Convention in May 1850 in Nashville . He was then a judge at the District Court ( Superior Court ) of the Chattahoochee District, where he served from February 1, 1854 to November 1854. Then he ran as a Democrat for the 34th Congress and won, as well as the two subsequent times.

He sat in Congress from March 4, 1855 to January 23, 1861 when he resigned because of the Georgia Secession . He then moved to the Provisional Confederate Congress as a deputy , where he stayed from January 1861 to February 22, 1862. Confederate President Jefferson Davis appointed him special agent for the United States in Washington . In May 1862 he established the 3rd Georgia Cavalry Regiment and served with it for a year. He was then reassigned to Major General Howell Cobb's staff , where he stayed until the end of the Civil War . He was later appointed as a judge in the Chattahoochee District Court to fill the vacancy created by Judge James Johnson's resignation on October 1, 1875. Crawford was reappointed in 1877 and served there until February 9, 1880, when he resigned himself to fill a vacancy at the Supreme Court of Georgia on February 10, 1880 . He was reappointed and worked there in Columbus until his death on July 23, 1883. He was buried in Linnwood Cemetery .

Web links

• Martin Jenkins Crawford in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)