Thomas Hartley Crawford Explained

Thomas Hartley Crawford
Birth Date:14 November 1786
Birth Place:Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
Office:Judge on the Criminal Court of the District of Columbia
Term Start:1845
Term End:1866
Appointed:James K. Polk
Office1:Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Term Start1:October 22, 1838
Term End1:October 30, 1845
Preceded1:Carey A. Harris
Succeeded1:William Medill
President1:Martin Van Buren
William Henry Harrison
John Tyler
James K. Polk
State2:Pennsylvania
District2:11th
Term Start2:March 4, 1829
Term End2:March 3, 1833
Preceded2:James Wilson
Alongside2:William Ramsey
Succeeded2:Charles Augustus Barnitz
Office3:Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Term3:1833-1834
Party:Jacksonian

Thomas Hartley Crawford (November 14, 1786 – January 27, 1863) was a Jacksonian member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Thomas H. Crawford was born in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Princeton College in 1804. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1807 and commenced practice in Chambersburg.

Crawford was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1833 and 1834. He was appointed a commissioner to investigate alleged frauds in the sale of the Creek Reservation in 1836. He was appointed by President Martin Van Buren as commissioner of Indian Affairs and served from October 22, 1838, to October 30, 1845. He was appointed by President James K. Polk as judge of the criminal court of the District of Columbia in 1845 and served until 1861, when the court was reorganized. He died in Washington, D.C., in 1863. He had his interment in the Congressional Cemetery.

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