Richard Crowley

Richard Crowley (December 14, 1836 - July 22, 1908) was a United States Representative from New York. He was born in Pendleton, New York. He attended the public schools and Lockport Union School. Later, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1860 and commenced practice in Lockport, New York.

Crowley was the city attorney of Lockport in 1865 and 1866. He was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States in 1865 and was a member of the New York Senate 1866-1870. He was appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant United States district attorney for the northern district of New York on March 23, 1871 and was reappointed March 3, 1875, and served in that capacity until March 3, 1879.

Crowley was elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1883). While in Congress, he served as chairman, Committee on Claims (Forty-seventh Congress). He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress. After leaving Congress, he resumed the practice of law in Lockport, New York. He was appointed by Governor Levi P. Morton in 1896 as counsel for the State of New York in American Civil War claims cases, in which capacity he was serving at the time of his death at Olcott Beach, New York in 1908. He was buried in Glenwood Cemetery.

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* Crowley, Julia M Corbitt. "Echoes from Niagara". Buffalo, N.Y.: C. W. Moulton, 1890.