Edward Hull Crump - Overton Park - Memphis, Tennessee - Statues of Historic Figures on Waymarking.com

Text on the base of the statue: "Erected by the people of the city of Memphis in memory of Edward Hull Crump (1874-1954). His was a life of dedicated public service, wise counsel, human understanding, designed to make Memphis the city of good abode. This memorial sponsored by The Friends of Edward Hull Crump."

From the Biography Directory of the United States Congress:

"Edward Hull Crump:

a Representative from Tennessee; born on a farm near Holly Springs, Marshall County, Miss., October 2, 1874; attended the public schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits; apprenticed as a printer in 1890; moved to Memphis, Tenn., in 1892; employed as a bookkeeper; engaged in the wholesale mercantile business, the manufacture of harness and buggies, and later in the banking, mortgage-loan, and real-estate businesses; also interested in farming; delegate to the Democratic State conventions in 1902 and 1904; member of the Memphis Board of Public Works in 1905; fire and police commissioner in 1907; mayor of Memphis 1910-1916; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1912, 1924, 1928, 1936, 1940, 1944, and 1948; county treasurer of Shelby County 1917-1923; member of the Democratic State committee 1926-1930 and of the Democratic National Committee 1936-1945; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second and Seventy-third Congresses (March 4, 1931-January 3, 1935); was not a candidate for renomination in 1934; Regent of the Smithsonian Institution 1931-1935; again elected mayor of Memphis, in 1939; resumed his activities in the mortgage-loan, investment, real-estate, and insurance businesses; also engaged in farming; died in Memphis, Tenn., October 16, 1954; interment in Elmwood Cemetery."

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