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Crisp, Charles Frederick

soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 29, 1845, in England. He was a lieutenant in the confederate army from 1861 to 1864, when he was taken prisoner.

In 1872 he was appointed solicitor-general of the southwestern circuit; and in 1873 was reappointed for a term of four years.

In the latter year he moved to Americus, Ga.; in 1877 was appointed judge of the superior court of the southwestern judicial circuit; and in 1878 was elected to the same office; and in 1880 was reelected for a term of four years. He resigned in 1882 and was elected a representative from Georgia to the forty-eighth congress; and received the re-election to the forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fiftysecond, fifty-third, and fifty-fourth as a democrat; and served as speaker of the house in the fifty-second and fifty-third congresses.