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Charles Frederick Crisp was born on January 29, 1845 in Sheffield, England, United Kingdom. He was the son of William and Elizabeth Crisp, natives of England. They had become American citizens, but were on a visit to England when Charles was born. During his early infancy they removed to Georgia. The Crisps were theatrical people, playing for the most part Shakespearian roles. William Crisp owned theatres in various parts of the S.
Charles seems to have had no formal education except such as was afforded in the public schools of Macon and Savannah.
While he was yet a boy the Civil War began, and at sixteen he was at the front. He became a lieutenant in Company K, 10th Virginia Infantry, fought three years in the Confederate army, and passed one year as a prisoner at Morris Island.
Released from prison in June 1865, he returned to his old home in Ellaville, Schley County, Georgia, and began to study law. He was then twenty years of age, but four years of war had made a man of him. He was admitted to the bar and settled at Americus, an important town in southwest Georgia.
In 1872 he was appointed solicitor-general of the southwestern superior court circuit and after five years was elevated to the bench. This position he was holding in 1882 when he resigned to accept the Democratic nomination for Congress.
He was elected and entered the Forty-eighth Congress, serving from March 4, 1883, until his death. On entering Congress, Crisp devoted himself to mastering the rules and methods of procedure. He came to be regarded as an exceptionally able parliamentarian.
His rise to the leadership of his party in Congress and to the speakership was due, as one of his colleagues put it, to the “sheer force of his remarkable fitness. ” - Perhaps the most important legislation with which Crisp was concerned was the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887.
It chanced that the chairman of the committee in charge of this bill was away from Congress and that the burden of championing it fell upon Crisp. He, along with another Georgian, Judson C. Clements, deserves a large measure of credit for the passage of the bill.
A series of four debates in important Georgia towns was arranged between Crisp and Hoke Smith, another prominent Georgian, and at the time secretary of the interior in Cleveland’s cabinet, who stood with the President in his fight to maintain the gold standard. Smith was not a candidate for office, but felt it incumbent upon him to defend the administration in Georgia.
The debates occurred early in the summer of 1896 before the meeting of the state Democratic Convention in June and before the nomination of Bryan in Chicago.
Georgia, like other agricultural states, was a debtor community and swallowed eagerly the arguments of the inflationists. Public sentiment was, therefore, with Crisp, and he was regarded as having had the better of the contest.
The Democratic state convention which met shortly after the debates indorsed free silver. A silver legislature was elected in the autumn and Crisp would unquestionably have been elected to the Senate but for his untimely death in October of that year.
A seat in the United States Senate had been his highest ambition. Once before the opportunity had presented itself, when, on the death of Senator Alfred H. Colquitt, Governor Northen tendered Crisp the post. But at that time his sense of public duty did not permit him to resign the speakership of the House.
Crisp is generally regarded as among the two or three ablest Georgia congressmen since the Civil War. He was one of the greatest parliamentarians; and, personally, he won and retained the respect and affection of his colleagues of both parties in Congress. He was a leader of the silverites, advocating the Sherman Act of 1890 which provided for a limited coinage of silver, and in 1896 announcing his candidacy for the Senate on a free-silver platform.
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Quotations: "My life would have been marred. As old as I am I cannot think what my life would have been without him. The moon and stars revolve around him to me. My father and mother came to love him very much. He has been the dearest, sweetest husband to me, and I have loved him better than anything else on earth. "
He was a member of United States House of Representatives.
He had a commanding physical appearance and was a convincing speaker.
In 1867 he married Clara Belle Burton of Ellaville, Georgia.
