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Crisp, Charles R

lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 19, 1870, in Ellaville, Ga. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a democrat, without opposition, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, the Hon.

Charles F. Crisp. He has attained success as a lawyer in Americus, Ga., where he is a member of the law firm of Hooper and Crisp. While in congress he took an active part in debates on various measures which affected the welfare of his state; and as a rising lawyer has already attained eminence at the bar of the south.

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