Rousseau Owen Crump

Rousseau Owen Crump

Rousseau Owen Crump (born May 20, 1843 in Pittsford , New York , †  May 1, 1901 in West Bay City , Michigan ) was an American politician . Between 1895 and 1901 he represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Rousseau Crump attended the public schools in his home country. He then worked for some time with his father in the building trade and then as a ship carpenter. From 1869 he was in Allegan County and Kalamazoo County in Michigan in the wood industry. In 1881 he moved to West Bay City, where he started a sawmill and box factory.

Politically, Crump was a member of the Republican Party . From 1889 to 1892 he was a member of the City Council of West Bay City and between 1893 and 1895 he was mayor of this place, which now belongs to the city of Bay City. In the congressional elections of 1894 , Crump was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the tenth constituency of Michigan , where he succeeded Democrat Thomas AE Weadock on March 4, 1895 . After three re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on May 1, 1901 . During this time the Spanish-American War of 1898 fell . At that time the Philippines and the Kingdom of Hawaii came under American administration. From 1899 Crump was chairman of the mining committee.

Rousseau Crump was married to Phoebe A. Tucker from 1868, with whom he had five children. He was buried in Bay City.

Web links

• Rousseau Owen Crump in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Rousseau Owen Crump in the database of Find a Grave (English)