Note: This is just one of
1,164
family groupings listed on
The Political Graveyard web site.
These families each have three or more politician members,
all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.
These groupings — even the names of the groupings,
and the areas of main activity — are the
result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,
not the choices of any historian or genealogist.
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Edgar Dean Crumpacker (1851-1920) —
also known as Edgar D. Crumpacker —
of Valparaiso, Porter
County, Ind.
Born in Westville, LaPorte
County, Ind., May 27,
1851.
Republican. Lawyer;
prosecuting attorney 31st District, 1884-88; Judge, Indiana Appellate
Court, 1891-93; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 10th District, 1897-1913; defeated,
1912.
Died in Valparaiso, Porter
County, Ind., May 19,
1920 (age 68 years, 358
days).
Interment at Graceland
Cemetery, Valparaiso, Ind.
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Jonathan William Crumpacker (1854-1904) —
also known as J. W. Crumpacker —
of LaPorte, LaPorte
County, Ind.
Born in New Durham Township, LaPorte
County, Ind., September
6, 1854.
Republican. School
teacher; civil
engineer; lawyer;
candidate for mayor
of LaPorte, Ind., 1882; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Indiana, 1888;
member of Indiana
state senate, 1893-96; justice of
New Mexico territorial supreme court, 1897-1903.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Knights
of Pythias; Odd
Fellows.
Died, from typhoid
fever, in LaPorte, LaPorte
County, Ind., March
15, 1904 (age 49 years, 191
days).
Interment at Westville Cemetery, Westville, Ind.
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Maurice Edgar Crumpacker (1886-1927) —
also known as Maurice E. Crumpacker —
of Oregon.
Born in Valparaiso, Porter
County, Ind., December
19, 1886.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Representative from Oregon 3rd District, 1925-27; died in office
1927.
Came to San Francisco with Nicholas
Longworth and others; left the group and was found by police,
sitting on a curb and claiming he had been poisoned
by someone trying to murder
him; deemed paranoid, taken to a hospital, and sedated; released at
his insistence; walking near the shoreline with a friend, he yelled
"Tell everybody good-bye!", jumped
into the water, and drowned,
in San
Francisco Bay, July 24,
1927 (age 40 years, 217
days).
Interment at River
View Cemetery, Portland, Ore.
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Owen Windle Crumpacker (1912-1998) —
also known as Owen W. Crumpacker —
of Whiting, Lake
County, Ind.
Born in Hammond, Lake
County, Ind., January
28, 1912.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; disbarred
in 1978 by the Indiana Supreme Court, over his unprofessional
conduct; repeatedly jailed
for contempt
of court for continuing to practice law after disbarment;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana 1st District, 1988.
Died in Portage, Kalamazoo
County, Mich., February
10, 1998 (age 86 years, 13
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. (1917-1986) —
of South Bend, St. Joseph
County, Ind.
Born in South Bend, St. Joseph
County, Ind., February
13, 1917.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 3rd District, 1951-57; superior court
judge in Indiana, 1977-85.
Died, in St. Joseph's Medical
Center, South Bend, St. Joseph
County, Ind., October
14, 1986 (age 69 years, 243
days).
Interment at Riverview
Cemetery, South Bend, Ind.
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