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Oil on canvas, Charles A. Gray, 1912, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives |
KERR, Michael Crawford, a Representative from Indiana; born in Titusville, Crawford County,
Pa., March 15, 1827; attended the common schools and Erie Academy; was
graduated from the law department of Louisville (Ky.) University in 1851; was
admitted to the bar and commenced practice in New Albany, Ind., in 1852; city
attorney in 1854; prosecuting attorney of Floyd County in 1855; member of the
State house of representatives in 1856 and 1857; reporter of the supreme court
of Indiana 1862-1865; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-ninth and to the
three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1873); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1872 to the Forty-third Congress; elected to the
Forty-fourth Congress and served from March 4, 1875, until his death; Speaker
of the House of Representatives (Forty-fourth Congress); died at Rockbridge
Alum Springs, Rockbridge County, Va., on August 19, 1876; interment in Fairview
Cemetery, New Albany, Ind.
BibliographyU. S. Congress.
Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Michael Crawford Kerr,
Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States. 44th Cong., 1
sess., 1877. Washington: Government Printing Office,
1877.
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