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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Edward H. "Boss" Crump |
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Memphis, Tennessee , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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October 02, 1874
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| Died | October 16, 1954
(80 years)
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| Contributor | RBH |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | CRUMP, Edward Hull, a Representative from Tennessee; born on a farm near Holly Springs, Marshall County, Miss., October 2, 1874; attended the public schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits; apprenticed as a printer in 1890; moved to Memphis, Tenn., in 1892; employed as a bookkeeper; engaged in the wholesale mercantile business, the manufacture of harness and buggies, and later in the banking, mortgage-loan, and real-estate businesses; also interested in farming; delegate to the Democratic State conventions in 1902 and 1904; member of the Memphis Board of Public Works in 1905; fire and police commissioner in 1907; mayor of Memphis 1910-1916; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1912, 1924, 1928, 1936, 1940, 1944, and 1948; county treasurer of Shelby County 1917-1923; member of the Democratic State committee 1926-1930 and of the Democratic National Committee 1936-1945; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second and Seventy-third Congresses (March 4, 1931-January 3, 1935); was not a candidate for renomination in 1934; Regent of the Smithsonian Institution 1931-1935; again elected mayor of Memphis, in 1939; resumed his activities in the mortgage-loan, investment, real-estate, and insurance businesses; also engaged in farming; died in Memphis, Tenn., October 16, 1954; interment in Elmwood Cemetery.
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| TN US Senate - D Primary - Aug 07, 1952 |
D |
Kenneth D. McKellar |
| TN US President - Nov 02, 1948 |
R |
J. Strom Thurmond |
| TN US Senate - D Primary - Aug 04, 1948 |
D |
John A. Mitchell |
| TN Governor - D Primary - Aug 04, 1948 |
D |
Jim Nance McCord |
| TN US Senate - D Primary - Aug 06, 1942 |
D |
A. Tom Stewart |
| TN Governor - D Primary - Aug 04, 1938 |
D |
Prentice Cooper |
| TN US Senate - Special D Primary - Aug 04, 1938 |
D |
A. Tom Stewart |
| TN Governor - D Primary - Aug 06, 1936 |
D |
Gordon W. Browning |
| TN US Senate - D Primary - Aug 02, 1934 |
D |
Nathan L. Bachman |
| TN Governor - D Primary - Aug 04, 1932 |
D |
Hill McAlister |
| TN Governor - D Primary - Aug 02, 1928 |
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Hill McAlister |
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