
Charles Frederick Crisp (29 January 1845 – 23 October 1896) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-GA 3) from 4 March 1883 to 23 October 1896 (succeeding Philip Cook and preceding Charles R. Crisp) and Speaker of the House from 8 December 1891 to 4 March 1895 (interrupting Thomas Brackett Reed's terms).
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Charles Frederick Crisp was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England in 1845, and his parents immigrated to the United States that same year and settled in Savannah and Macon, Georgia. He joined the Confederate States Army at the start of the American Civil War, and he was captured at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House in 1864 and settled in Ellaville, Georgia after the war's end. He studied law in Americus and became a lawyer in 1866, practicing law in Ellaville, and he served as a judge during the 1870s before going on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1883 until his death in 1896. He served as Speaker of the House from 1891 to 1895 as a conservative Southern Democrat, and he died in office in 1896 while running for US Senate. On 18 June 2020, his portrait as Speaker of the House was taken down by Speaker Nancy Pelosi because of his allegiance to the Confederate cause.