Charles Crisp - Autograph card signed - 19th century Georgia representative

Description

Speaker of the House, Georgia representative, card signed, Americus GA. Tape residue on left of card, pencil annotation "Vice President" from previous collector.
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Charles Frederick Crisp
33rd
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
In office
December 8, 1891 – March 4, 1895
Preceded by
Thomas B. Reed
Succeeded by
Thomas B. Reed
Leader of the
House Democratic Caucus
In office
December 8, 1891 – March 4, 1895
Preceded by
John G. Carlisle
Succeeded by
James D. Richardson
Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from
Georgia
's
3rd
district
In office
March 4, 1883 – October 23, 1896
Preceded by
Philip Cook
Succeeded by
Charles R. Crisp
Personal details
Born
January 29, 1845
Sheffield
,
England
Died
October 23, 1896 (aged 51)
Atlanta, Georgia
Political party
Democratic
Profession
Law
Charles Frederick Crisp
(January 29, 1845 – October 23, 1896) was a
United States
political figure
. A
Democrat
, he was elected as a
congressman
from
Georgia
in 1882, and served until his death in 1896. From 1890 until his death, he led the Democratic Party in the House, as either the
speaker of the House
or
House minority leader
. He was the father of
Charles R. Crisp
who also served in Congress.
Biography
Crisp was born in
Sheffield, England
on January 29, 1845. Later that year, his parents immigrated to the
United States
and settled in
Georgia
where he attended the common schools of
Savannah
and
Macon, Georgia
. At the outbreak of the
American Civil War
, he was temporarily residing in
Luray, Virginia
, with his parents, who were in the middle of a Shakespearean play tour. He enlisted in a local unit, the "Page Volunteers" of Company K,
10th Virginia Infantry
, and was commissioned lieutenant. He served with that regiment until May 12, 1864, when he became a
prisoner of war
at the Battle of
Spotsylvania Court House
. He was held as one of the
Immortal Six Hundred
at
Fort Pulaski, Georgia
, and later transferred to Fort Delaware. After his release in June 1865, he joined his parents at
Ellaville, Georgia
.
Crisp studied law at
Americus, Georgia
. He was admitted to the bar in 1866 and commenced practice in Ellaville. He was appointed solicitor general of the southwestern judicial circuit in 1872 and reappointed in 1873 for a term of four years. In June 1877, he was appointed judge of the superior court of the same circuit. Crisp was elected by the general assembly to the same office in 1878 and reelected judge for a term of four years in 1880 when he resigned that office in September 1882 to accept the Democratic nomination for the
United States Congress
.
Crisp
courted
Clara Bell Burton, born in Ellaville, a small town in southwest Georgia, of wealthy and religious parentage. Her father, Robert Burton, was a slave-owning
cotton planter
before the war. Both he and her mother held high ambitions for their two daughters' future, and they were chagrined when Crisp, then a poor lawyer from a theatrical family, desired to marry their youngest daughter, Clara Bell. They were greatly disappointed when they discovered that her affections had been won. Mrs. Burton, especially, felt that her beautiful daughter ought to be more ambitious in marriage. Crisp followed protocol and wrote a formal request to Mr. Burton. In later years, after Crisp had achieved distinction, Burton declared that his son-in-law had never written anything better. But at the time it was to no effect. Crisp requested that a friend ask Mr. Burton if they might be married at her home. Her parents refused, so they had to make other plans. Clara Bell's sister Ella assisted with her trousseau. One bright Sunday morning, when she was visiting her brother on the outskirts of Ellaville, Crisp drove Clara Bell in his buggy to his boarding place, and there in the presence of a few friends in the parlor, they were married. The next Sunday, Crisp and his wife joined the Methodist Church of Ellaville. Soon Clara Bell's parents reconciled with the couple, and he became the mainstay of their old age. They lived fifty-one years in the same house. Clara Bell, on her death-bed, said: "I cannot think what my life would have been without him... My father and mother came to love him very much. He has been the dearest, sweetest husband to me, and I have loved him better than anything else on earth."
Crisp served as president of the Democratic gubernatorial convention at
Atlanta, Georgia
, in April 1883. he was elected a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1883, until his death. In Congress, he served as chairman of the Committee on Elections in the
Fiftieth Congress
, Committee on Rules in the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses, and Speaker of the House of Representatives in the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses. He had been nominated for
United States Senator
in the Georgia primary of 1896, but he died in Atlanta on October 23, 1896, and was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery in his hometown of Americus. Georgia's
Crisp County
is named in his honor.
Legacy
As a former Speaker of the House, his portrait had been on display in the US Capitol. The portrait was removed from public display in the Speaker's Lobby outside the House Chamber after an order issued by the Speaker of the House,
Nancy Pelosi
on June 18, 2020, due to Crisp having fought in the
Confederate States Army
.