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Thomas Theodore Crittenden was born on January 1, 1832 near Shelbyville in Shelby County, Kentucky. His father, Henry Crittenden, was a younger brother of John Jordan Crittenden.
His mother, Anna M. (Allen) Crittenden, was the daughter of John Allen, an eminent Kentucky lawyer.
Young Crittenden received such education in the elementary branches as the schools of the country afforded and in 1852 entered Centre College at Danville, Kentucky, from which institution he graduated in 1855.
He then studied law in the office of his uncle, John J. Crittenden, at Frankfort, and was admitted to practise in 1856.
Crittenden removed to Missouri in the summer of 1857, settled at Lexington in Lafayette County, formed a law partnership with Judge John A. S. Tutt, and very soon attained an active and lucrative practise.
Early in the Civil War he entered the Union service and was appointed by Governor Gamble to be lieutenant-colonel of the 7th Regiment of the Missouri State Militia, a cavalry regiment commanded by Col. John F. Philips.
This regiment performed much valuable service and did good fighting in Missouri and Arkansas. Crittenden served to the end of the war and was honorably discharged in 1865.
He had already been appointed attorney-general of Missouri by Governor Hall to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Aikman Welch in 1864.
At the close of the war he returned to civil life and formed a partnership with Francis Marion Cockrell for the practise of law at Warrensburg.
This partnership existed until Crittenden was elected to the United States Congress from the 7th Missouri congressional district in 1872.
He served one term, but in 1874 after 690 ballots he was defeated for renomination by his old military associate, Colonel John F. Philips.
In 1876 Crittenden received the nomination without solicitation on his part and was elected by the largest Democratic majority ever given in the 7th district.
In 1880 he secured the nomination for governor on the Democratic ticket, and in the election defeated the Republican candidate, David P. Dyer, by a plurality of 54, 034.
The most memorable act of his administration was the institution by the State of Missouri of the suit against the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad for the payment, with interest, of the $3, 000, 000 loaned to that road in 1851 and 1855.
The suit was settled in favor of the state, and the road paid the claim in full with accrued interest. Crittenden was persistent in his efforts to suppress outlawry, and succeeded in ridding Missouri of the notorious Jesse James and in breaking up the James gang. During the second administration of President Cleveland, he was appointed consul- general to Mexico.
At the time of his death in Kansas City, May 29, 1909, he was referee in bankruptcy for the United States district court.
Crittenden was elected Governor of Missouri in the 1880 election. During his term, Crittenden's administration also collected payment on loans to the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, reduced state debt, established the Missouri State Board of Health and the Missouri State Bureau of Mines and Mine inspection, increased appropriations for education, and started a training school for nurses in St. Louis.
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His religious belief was a Presbyterian of the old school.
In politics he was a Democrat of the conservative type.
In Congress he was a conspicuous figure and made friends among the leading politicians. As governor, he was distinguished by his positive and aggressive spirit.
He was a man possessed of an unusually cheerful and genial disposition.
He was married to Carrie W. Jackson, a lady of charming accomplishments, daughter of Samuel Jackson of Kentucky.
