. The great American book of biography . tive practice. In 1S72,he was appointed solicitor-oeneral of the southwesternjudicial circuit and was re-appointed in 1873, foi ^ termof tour years. The Congres-sional Directory thus mod-estly sums up the publiccareer of Mr. Crisp:— He located in Ameri-cus in 1S73: in June, 1877,was appointed judge of ihesuperior court of the samecircuit; in 1878 was electedby the general assembly tothe same office ; in 1880 wasre-elected judge for a termof four years ; resigned thatoffice in September. 1882, toaccept the Democratic nomi-nation for Congress ; was perman
. The great American book of biography . tive practice. In 1S72,he was appointed solicitor-oeneral of the southwesternjudicial circuit and was re-appointed in 1873, foi ^ termof tour years. The Congres-sional Directory thus mod-estly sums up the publiccareer of Mr. Crisp:— He located in Ameri-cus in 1S73: in June, 1877,was appointed judge of ihesuperior court of the samecircuit; in 1878 was electedby the general assembly tothe same office ; in 1880 wasre-elected judge for a termof four years ; resigned thatoffice in September. 1882, toaccept the Democratic nomi-nation for Congress ; was permanent president of the Democratic conventionwhich assembled in Atlanta in April, 1883, to nominate a candidate for governor ;was elected to the Forty-eighth, Forty ninth, Mftieth, Mfty-first, Fifty-second, andFifty-third Congresses, and re-elected to the bifty-fourth Congress as a Demo-crat, receiving 8,503 votes, against 2,568 votes for George H. White. Populist ;was elected Speaker of the House in the Fifty-second antl biftythird Con-. FREDERICK IKISP. It will thus be noted that Mr. Crisp entered Congress at the age of thirty CHARLES FREDERICK CRISP. / j eight. He speedily took high rank in that body, and otten, during his secondterm was called to occupy the chair in committee ot the whole. He is one ofthe ablest parliamentary authorities, self-possessed debaters and best informedmen in the House. He was a leading participant in the turbulent scenes ofthe Fifty-first Congress, when the only member as cool as he was Speaker party never did a more appropriate thing than when, at the first opportu-nity, they placed him in the chair as Speaker, and it may be truthfully said thatfew if any occupants have displayed more ability and judicial fairness than he. Great as have been the public honors placed upon Mr. Crisp, the mostpleasing picture of him is in his own home. He is liked by every one inAmericus. When the news reached that town that he had been chosen Spea
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