Fred Lewis Crawford (May 5,
1888 - April 13, 1957) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan
.
Crawford
was born in Dublin,
Texas
and attended local public schools.
He went to
business college at Peniel (now part of Greenville,
Texas
), and attended the University of
Michigan
at Ann Arbor
. He engaged in accountancy at Des Moines, Iowa
, and Detroit, Michigan
, 1914-1917. He built, financed, and operated
beet sugar mills in various sections of the United States,
1917-1935. He also engaged in manufacturing, ranching, and overland
transportation. He was director of the
Michigan National Bank and the
Refiners Transport & Petroleum Corporation of Detroit at time
of his death.
In 1934, Crawford was elected as a
Republican from
Michigan's 8th
congressional district to the
United States House of
Representatives, defeating incumbent
Democrat Michael J. Hart. Crawford served in the
74th Congress and the eight
succeeding Congresses, from January 3, 1935 to January 3, 1953. In
1952, he was defeated in the Republican primary election by
Alvin M. Bentley, who went on to win the general
election.
As a
member of the Committee on
Insular Affairs, Crawford attended the inaugural ceremonies of
the Commonwealth of the
Philippines in 1935 and the Republic of the Philippines
in 1946. His notebooks and other materials related to
those events are archived at the Bentley Historical Library of the
University of
Michigan [409709]. Crawford was the ranking minority
member on the
Committee on
Public Lands in the
81st and
82nd Congresses (1950-1952).
[409710]
Crawford
retired to his farm at Allentown in Prince Georges
County, Maryland
. He died in Washington, D.C.
and is interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suitland,
Maryland
.
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