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Crawford, Martin Jenkins

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born March 17, 1820, in Jasper county, Ga. He was a member of the Georgia legislature from 1845 to 1847; and in 1853 was appointed judge of the superior court. He elected a member of the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses; and was also elected to the thirty-sixth congress. He joined the great rebellion of that year as a member of the confederate congress, and was a commissioner to Washington. He died July 22, 1883, in Columbus, Ga.

CRAWFORD, NATHANIEL MORTON, clergyman, college president, author, was born March 22, 1811, in Oglethorpe county, Va. He was a baptist minister of Kentucky; president of Georgetown college, Ky., in 1865-71, and the author of Christian Paradoxes. He died Oct. 27, 1871, in Walker county, Va.