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Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 9/11/1881
Birth Place: Greene County, Pennsylvania
Party Affiliation: Republican
Assemblies Served:
House: 8 (1860)
Home County: Linn
Jennings Crawford
Linn County
Born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, September 14, 1805. He married Miss Sarah Evans in 1826, and in 1829 moved to Knox County, Ohio, where Mrs. Crawford died in July, 1845. He married Miss Sarah Price in February, 1847. Mr. Crawford was elected in the fall of 1859, Representative to the Eighth General Assembly of Iowa, by a flattering majority; was therefore a member of the extra session called by Gov. Kirkwood to put the State upon a war footing. He was President of the School Board in 1858, when the present Township District School Law came into existence. He has always been a strong supporter and zealous advocate of common schools and universal education.
Sources:
House District 39
Committees
8th GA (1860)
Legislation Sponsored
8th GA (1860)