Coe I. Crawford

Coe Isaac Crawford
South Dakota State Senator
In office 1893–1897
sixth Governor of South Dakota
In office 1907–1908
Preceded by	Samuel H. Elrod
Succeeded by	Robert S. Vessey
United States Senator from South Dakota
In office 1908–1914
Personal details
Born	January 14, 1858(1858-01-14)
Died	April 25, 1944(1944-04-25) (aged 86)

Coe Isaac Crawford (January 14, 1858 – April 25, 1944) was the sixth Governor of South Dakota in the United States.

Biography

He was born near Volney, in Allamakee County, Iowa. He attended the common schools and received additional instruction from a private tutor. In 1882, he graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in law. He began his practice in Independence, Iowa, moving to Pierre, in what was the Dakota Territory, in 1883. He was the prosecuting attorney for Hughes County, South Dakota in 1887 and 1888. In 1889, he was elected to the Territorial Council, the upper house of the Dakota Territorial Legislature.

When South Dakota was admitted as a state in 1889, he was elected as a member of the first South Dakota State Senate. He went on to serve as the state Attorney General from 1893 to 1897. He ran for the United States House of Representatives seat for South Dakota in 1896, but lost the election. He then moved to Huron, South Dakota, and served as an attorney for the Chicago & North Western Railway from 1897 to 1903, when he resigned.

He was elected as a Republican to the position of Governor of South Dakota in 1907, and served in that capacity through 1908. He ran for the United States Senate that year, and won the election. He served in the Senate through 1914, when he lost his bid for renomination. He then returned to Huron and the practice of law until 1934, when he retired from active business and political life. He died in Yankton, South Dakota in 1944.

References

• Coe I. Crawford at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Political offices
Preceded by Samuel H. Elrod	Governor of South Dakota 1907–1909	Succeeded by Robert S. Vessey
United States Senate
Preceded by Alfred B. Kittredge	United States Senator (Class 3) from South Dakota 1909–1915	Succeeded by Edwin S. Johnson

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Name	Crawford, Coe I.
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Date of birth	January 14, 1858
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Date of death	April 25, 1944
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