Thomas Howell Crawford

Birth Date

1803-03-01

Death Date

1871-06-17

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Louisville, Kentucky, mayor and real estate agent. Virginia native. Son of Thomas Crawford and Jane Todd Crawford. Married to Clementine E. Crawford. Father of Amelia M. Crawford. City assessor of Louisville in 1850. Owned six enslaved persons in 1850. Member of the Know-Nothing Party. Member of the Louisville Board of Alderman from 1857 to 1858. President of the Louisville Board of Alderman in 1858. Mayor of Louisville from 1859 to 1861. Unsuccessful Union Party candidate for Mayor of Louisville in 1863. Real estate agent in Louisville.

“Crawford, Thomas Howell,” in The Encyclopedia of Louisville, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015), p. 230. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 7, District 4, p. 359. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 7, District 4, p. 872. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 7, p. 75.

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