Speaker Crisp

Speaker Crisp is a Georgia historical marker in Sumter County, dedicated 1960.

At 139 Taylor Street in Americus.

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Charles Frederick Crisp (1845-1896), Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, built this house in the 1880s. A native of England and a veteran of service with the Confederate States Army, he had a distinguished career as judge of the Southwestern Judicial Circuit and as a member of Congress. He was elected to the U.S. Senate a short time before his death but did not live to take the oath of office. His son, Charles Robert Crisp (1870-1937), received an interim appointment to fill his father's seat in the House of Representatives and was later elected in his own right.

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1831 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1838 · Georgia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1842 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1845 · Georgia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1845 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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