Schley County GaArchives Biographies.....Crisp, Charles Frederick January 29, 1845 - October 23, 1896
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Author: THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION  SEPT. 24, 1892

THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION  SEPT. 24, 1892

SPEAKER CRISP

From Lippincott's Magazine.

Speaker Crisp is a tall, broad-shouldered man, of compact build, with a frank 
face, twinkling gray eyes and a sparse brown moustache and is getting bald on 
top.  In manner, he is most engaging, possessing a to a marked degree all that 
grace and dignity which are typical of the southern-bred man.  He was born in 
England.  The accident of birth, which will prevent his ever becoming a 
presidential possibility, ocurred to him seven and forty years ago.  His 
parents were actors.  They returned to the United States in less than a year 
after his birth and he was reared in Georgia.  When the war broke out he 
enlisted in the confederate service and served until May, 1864, when he was 
taken prisoner and sent to Fort Delaware.  He was subsequentlt released, and 
returned to Ellaville, Ga., where his parents then resided, (and) got himself 
admitted to the bar.  This was in 1866.  Six years later he was appointed 
solicitor general of the southwestern circuit, being reappointed in 1873 for 
the full term of four years.  At the expiration of his term he was elected 
judge of the superior court and was re-elected in 1880, but resigned two lears 
later to accept a seat in congress, which he has since occupied.  One of 
themost persistent workers in the house, he was hardly ever absent from his 
seat and soon became one of the acknowledged leaders on the democratic side.  
As a parliamentarian he has few equals and within the last few years has had 
no superior.  He is not and never pretended to be an orator.  As a debater he 
is judiucial and dignified and since Roscoe Conkling's day no man in congress 
has displayed a choicer affluence of language in the off-hand current of 
debate.  He is always earnest and sincere, so that from the first he never 
rose without commanding the ear of the house.  He is quick in repartee and 
forceful in gesture, but his voice, though remarkably clear at teh opening of 
a speech, becomes harsh and threatening when strained at too high a pitch.  
Personally he is one of the most populart men in public life, and young men 
are drawn toward him by something like the old magnetism that once cut a 
figure in the house.  He is kindly and companionable by nature and likes to 
hear and tell good stories.  He is also devoted to his family.

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