John C. Crawford Explained

John C. Crawford was an American from Monroe, Wisconsin who served a single one-year term as a Whig member of the Wisconsin State Assembly for Green County in the 2nd (1849) Wisconsin Legislature.[1] He succeeded Henry Adams, a Democrat, and was succeeded by William C. Green (also a Democrat).[2]

He was a founding member of the Wisconsin Historical Society when it was organized in 1849, and was elected vice-president from Green County for the new organization at their founding meeting.[3]

Notes and References

  1. State of Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau. "Members of the Wisconsin Legislature 1848 - 1999". Information Bulletin 99-1 (September 1999), p. 41.
  2. http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.HistGreen1877 Bingham, Helen M. (Helen Maria). History of Green County, Wisconsin Milwaukee: Burdick & Armitage, printers, 1877; p. 61
  3. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/82185552/state-historical-society-of-wisconsin-fo/ "State Historical Society"

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