Thomas T. Crittenden
Centre College Class of 1855

U.S. Representative from Missouri; born near Shelbyville, Shelby County, Ky., January 1, 1832; attended the primary schools at Cloverport, Ky.; was graduated from Centre College, Danville, Ky., in 1855; served as registrar of Franklin County in 1856; studied law in Frankfort, Ky.; was admitted to the bar in 1858 and commenced practice in Lexington, Mo.; served in the Union Army from 1862 to 1864, being commissioned captain and later lieutenant colonel of the Seventh Missouri Cavalry Militia Regiment; moved to Warrensburg in 1865 and continued the practice of law; appointed attorney general of Missouri by Gov. Willard P. Hall in 1864 to fill out the unexpired term of Aikman Welch, deceased; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); was not a candidate for renomination in 1874; again elected to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); Governor of Missouri 1881-1885; moved to Kansas City in 1885 and continued the practice of law; United States consul general at the city of Mexico from April 5, 1893, to 1897; referee in bankruptcy from 1898 until his death in Kansas City, Mo., May 29, 1909; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress