Coe Isaac Crawford Biography


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CRAWFORD, Coe Isaac, a Senator from South Dakota; born near Volney, 
Allamakee County, Iowa, January 14, 1858; attended the common and graded 
schools and was instructed by a private tutor; was graduated from the law 
department of the University of iowa at Iowa City in 1882; was admitted 
to the bar and commenced practice at Independence, Iowa; moved to Pierre, 
Territory of Dakota, in 1883 and continued the practice of law; prosecuting 
attorney of Hughes County in 1887 aud 1888; member of the last Territorial 
council in 1889; upon the admission of South Dakota as a State into the Union 
was elected as a member of the first State senate; attorney general of South 
Dakota 1892-1896; unsuccessful Republican candidate in 1896 for Representative 
at Large to the Fifty-fifth Congress; attorney for the Chicago & North Western 
Railway Co. for the State of South Dakota in 1897 and served until 1903, when 
he resigned; moved to Huron in 1897; Governor of South Dakota in 1907 and 1908; 
delegate to the Republican Natioiial Convcntioii at Chicago in 1908; elected as 
a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1909, to 
March 3, 1915; un-successful candidate for renomination in 1914; resumed the 
practice of law in Huron, S. Dak., until 1934, when he retired from active 
business and political life; died in Yaiikton, S. Dak., April 25, 1944; 
interment in Municipal Cemetery, Iowa City, Iowa.