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The Political Graveyard: Crebs family of Carmi, Illinois
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Crebs family of Carmi, Illinois</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 320,919 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.</p> <p>These groupings — even the <i>names</i> of the groupings, and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have, not the choices of any historian or genealogist.</p> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>John Montgomery Crebs (1830-1890)</b> — also known as <b>John M. Crebs</b> — of Carmi, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/WT-lived.html">White County</a>, Ill. Born in Middleburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/LO-born.html">Loudoun County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1830/04-09.html">April 9, 1830</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/sppi.html">Illinois superintendent of public instruction</a>, 1866; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Illinois</a> 13th District, 1869-73; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/IL.html">1880</a>. Died in Carmi, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/WT-died.html">White County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/06-26.html">June 26, 1890</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 78 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/WT-buried.html#cms00826">Maple Ridge Cemetery</a>, Carmi, Ill. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Ferdinand Berry Crebs and Lucy Jones (Wilson) Crebs; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/10-13.html">October 13, 1857</a>, to Annie E. Stewart; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/craytoff-crego.html#419.37.75">John Montgomery Crebs Jr.</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/craytoff-crego.html#561.69.51">Caswell Jones Crebs</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/20878.html">Crebs family</a> of Carmi, Illinois.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000900">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403012">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John M. Crebs">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/15571789">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=209139">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>John Montgomery Crebs Jr. (1869-1955)</b> — also known as <b>John M. Crebs, Jr.</b> — of Carmi, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/WT-lived.html">White County</a>, Ill. Born in Illinois, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/01-24.html">January 24, 1869</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Banker</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/IL.html">1912</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1916/IL.html">1916</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1916/committees.html">Credentials Committee</a>); candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/uofi.html">University of Illinois trustee</a>, 1918. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1955/06-21.html">June 21, 1955</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 148 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/WT-buried.html#cms00826">Maple Ridge Cemetery</a>, Carmi, Ill. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/craytoff-crego.html#877.49.29">John Montgomery Crebs</a> and Annie (Stewart) Crebs; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/05-01.html">May 1, 1890</a>, to Eledith Hinde Powell; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/craytoff-crego.html#561.69.51">Caswell Jones Crebs</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/20878.html">Crebs family</a> of Carmi, Illinois.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/63955765">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=263721">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.state.il.us/court/SupremeCourt/JusticeArchive/Bio_Crebs.asp"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/561/69.51.jpg" width=70 height=109 border=0 alt="Caswell J. Crebs"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Caswell Jones Crebs (1912-1988)</b> — also known as <b>Caswell J. Crebs</b> — of Robinson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CA-lived.html">Crawford County</a>, Ill. Born in Carmi, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/WT-born.html">White County</a>, Ill., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/01-14.html">January 14, 1912</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; circuit judge in Illinois 2nd Circuit, 1945-64; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/spju.html">justice of Illinois state supreme court</a> 5th District, 1969-70, 1975-76. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/moose.html">Moose</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grange.html">Grange</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-kappa-psi.html">Phi Kappa Psi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-alpha-delta.html">Phi Alpha Delta</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/ord-coif.html">Order of the Coif</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-kappa-phi.html">Phi Kappa Phi</a>. Died in Fountain Valley, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/OR-died.html">Orange County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1988/03-05.html">March 5, 1988</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 51 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Stewart L. Crebs and Dorothy Mary (Jones) Crebs; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/">1942</a> to Mary Wakefield Mann; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/craytoff-crego.html#419.37.75">John Montgomery Crebs Jr.</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/craytoff-crego.html#877.49.29">John Montgomery Crebs</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/20878.html">Crebs family</a> of Carmi, Illinois.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Image source:</i> Illinois Supreme Court</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-9588757529416233"; /* TPG general sideline */ google_ad_slot = "2646840196"; google_ad_width = 160; google_ad_height = 600; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></tr></table> <table width=100%> <td align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-9588757529416233"; /* TPG general bottomline */ google_ad_slot = "1170106998"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></table> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"><span style="font-size:20pt;"> <span style="font-family:garamond,serif"> <i>"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."</i></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:8pt;">Henry L. 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