Martin McNulty Crane

Martin McNulty Crane (born November 17, 1855 in Grafton , Virginia , †  August 3, 1943 ) was an American politician . Between 1893 and 1895 he was lieutenant governor of the state of Texas .

Career

After the early death of his parents in what is now West Virginia , Martin Crane grew up in Stewart County , Tennessee . At the age of 17 he moved to Johnson County , Texas. There he worked first as a farm worker and then as a teacher. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1877, he began to work in this profession. Between 1878 and 1882 he was a public prosecutor in his home country. He then continued his practice as a lawyer. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . In 1885 he was an MP in the Texas House of Representatives ; from 1890 to 1892 he was a member of the State Senate .

In 1892, Crane was elected lieutenant governor of Texas alongside Jim Hogg . He held this office between 1893 and 1895. He was Deputy Governor and Chairman of the State Senate. Crane was particularly committed to the concerns of farmers. Between 1895 and 1898 he held the office of Attorney General of his state as the successor to Charles Allen Culberson . In 1912 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore , where Woodrow Wilson was nominated as a presidential candidate. In 1917, Crane was an adviser in the impeachment proceedings against Governor James E. Ferguson . Then he headed for some time the Dallas County Citizens League , founded in 1922 , which combated the political influence of the Ku Klux Klan . During all these years he practiced as a lawyer in Dallas. He died on August 3, 1943.

Web links

• The Political Graveyard
• Martin McNulty Crane in the Handbook of Texas