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Creation Date
12-29-2011
Description
Speaker Crisp Marker, Americus GA.
The text on the marker reads as :
" Charles Frederick Crisp (1845-1896), Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, built this house in the 1880`s. A native of England and a veteran of service with the Confederate States Army, he had a distinguished career as judge of the Southwestern Judicial Circuit and as a member of Congress. He was elected to the U.S. Senate a short time before his death, but did not live to take the oath of office. His son, Charles Robert Crisp (1870-1937), received an interim appointment to fill his father`s seat in the House of Representatives and was later elected in his own right."
Sponsored by : Georgia Historical Commission in 1960.
Latitude, Longitude
32.06860556, -84.22897500
Recommended Citation
Taylor, George Lansing Jr., "Speaker Crisp Marker, Americus, GA" (2011). George Lansing Taylor Collection Main Gallery. 4615.
https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/historical_architecture_main/4615
