William Wallace Crapo (May 16, 1830 – February 28, 1926) was a member of the

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from

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. He was elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Buffinton. He served slightly more than three terms in congress from November 2, 1875 to March 3, 1883 Born in

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, died in

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, Massachusetts. Crapo is interred in the Rural Cemetery. He was a prominent attorney in New Bedford. Among his clients was

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. William Wallace Crapo was a brother of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity in his undergraduate years at

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. He graduated in 1852 and was a member of

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. On April 15, 1851, Crapo visited Brown University, on which date he is credited with initiating 17 members of the provisional chapter there, re-activating the ten-years-dormant Brunonian Chapter. In 1903, Crapo (pronounced cray-poe) was a founding member and first president of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society, governing body of the

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Personal life

Crapo was the son of Governor of Michigan Henry H. Crapo (1804–1869), who also served as the mayor of Flint, Michigan and in the Michigan State Senate. His mother, Mary Ann (Slocum) Crapo (1805–1875), was a descendant of

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and his wife

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, daughter of

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. His second cousin, three times removed is

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, who served as a

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from Idaho 1993-1999 and has served as a

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from Idaho since 1999. His nephew was

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, co-founder of General Motors. Crapo married Sarah Ann Davis Tappan (October 6, 1831 in Newburyport, MA-December 13, 1893 in New Bedford, MA) on January 20, 1857 in New Bedford. They had four children: *Henry Howland Crapo II (January 5, 1862 in New Bedford, MA-November 26, 1951 in Leesburg, FL) *George Tappan Crapo (March 16, 1864 in New Bedford, MA-September 12, 1865 in New Bedford, MA) *Stanford Tappan Crapo (June 13, 1865 in New Bedford, MA-January 26, 1939 in Tryon, NC); married Emma Caroline Morley (January 6, 1872 in Fort Scott, KS-November 27, 1937 in Detroit, MI) on October 10, 1894 in Painesville, OH **William Wallace Crapo II (1895–1991) **Catherine Tappan Crapo (1897–1977); married Capt. John Morgan Bullard, US Army (1890–1965) ***Dr. John Crapo Bullard (1921–2002); married Katherine G. Kilburn (1922–2005) ****John Kilburn Bullard (1947-; served as Mayor of New Bedford, Massachusetts from 1986-1992 ***Sarah Bullard (1924–1942) ** Mary Morley Crapo (1912–2003); married 1st Donald Frizell Hyde (1909–1966); married 2nd

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***Anne Howland Hyde (1941–1941) *Anna Almy Crapo (November 20, 1866 in New Bedford, MA-April 27, 1867 in New Bedford, MA)

References

* * Headley, Phineas Camp: ''Public men of to-day: being biographies of the President and Vice-President of the United States, each member of the Cabinet, the United States Senators and the members of the House of Representatives of the Forty-Seventh Congress, the Chief Justice and justices of the Supreme Court of the United States''., page 345 (1882).

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* 1830 births 1926 deaths William W. Yale University alumni Politicians from New Bedford, Massachusetts Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts People from Dartmouth, Massachusetts {{Massachusetts-Representative-stub