Butler County AlArchives Biographies.....Crenshaw, Walter H. July 7 1817 - December 7 1878
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   WALTER H. CRENSHAW was born in South Carolina, July 7, 1817, and died in
Butler county, Ala., December 7, 1878. He was a member of the house of
representatives from his county, 1838, 1840, 1841, 1847, 1861-2-3-4; was speaker
in 1861-2-3-4; state senator 1851-3-1865, and 1866; president of the senate
1865-6, and a member of the state convention of 1865, which framed the state
constitution of that year. As a presiding officer he gave entire satisfaction,
and as a public man, few in the south gained a more enviable reputation. He was
long in public life in Alabama, and always maintained a high character for
abilities and integrity. His judgment could at all times be safely trusted, and
his example is worthy of all the praise due to exalted virtue and patriotism.
The following is from an obituary notice by a friend. "Judge Walter H. Crenshaw
was solid rather than brilliant and possessed a mind of remarkable balance and
clearness. On the establishment of the criminal court for this county in 1871,
he was elected judge and discharged the duties with characteristic energy and
ability. He resigned that position to accept his election as one of the
codifiers of the law of Alabama, and for nearly a whole year bent his energies
of mind and body to the work-eighteen hours out of the twenty-four, and which
his family believe was the producing cause of the paralysis with which he was
stricken down. He seemed to retain all he ever knew; he was, as near as can be,
a walking library of legal and political information of Alabama and the union.
Thus has passed away one of the old land marks of Butler county, and a large
contributor to the character and grandeur of Alabama, as he was a man whose
character for truth, honor, integrity, was without spot or blemish and a model
in social and family relations."



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 553-554


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