Miles Crowley

Miles Crowley

Miles Crowley (born February 22, 1859 in Boston , Massachusetts , †  September 22, 1921 in Galveston , Texas ) was an American politician . Between 1895 and 1897 he represented the state of Texas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Miles Crowley attended public schools in his home country and then worked as a dock worker. In the 1870s, he moved to Galveston, Texas, where he became the assistant fire department chief. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1892, he began to work in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . In 1892 he was an MP in the Texas House of Representatives . The following year he moved to the State Senate , to which he was a member until 1894.

In the congressional election of 1894 , Crowley was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the tenth constituency of Texas , where he succeeded Walter Gresham on March 4, 1895 . Since he renounced another candidacy in 1896, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1895 . After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, Crowley initially practiced as a lawyer in Galveston again. Between 1904 and 1912 he was a prosecutor in Galveston County . From 1920 he acted there as a district judge. He died on September 22, 1921 in Galveston, where he was also buried.

Web links

• Miles Crowley in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Miles Crowley in the database of Find a Grave (English)