CRUMP, William Wood was born on November 25, 1819 in Henrico County, Virginia, United States, United States. Son of Sterling Jamieson and Elizabeth (Wood) Crump. His father was an importer-merchant in Richmond, where the younger Crump attended Dr. Gwathmey’s school before going to Amherst Institute in Massachusetts.
Graduated from College William and Mary, 1838.
He graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1838, where he read law under Beverly Tucker. In 1840, he was admitted to the Richmond bar, practicing in that city for some years. He was a staunch states’ rights Democrat and an Episcopalian.
He had four children by his marriage to Mary S. Tabb. Crump was a judge of the circuit court of Richmond in 1851-1852 and a member of the Richmond city council in the late 1850s. During the Civil War, he was an ardent Confederate and he was appointed assistant secretary of the treasury to George Trenholm.
He opposed the congressional movement to remove from office all government employees under forty years of age, and he formulated a plan for continuing the employment of those minor bureaucrats. After the war, he returned to his law practice, assisted in the legal defense of former President Davis, and served in the state legislature. Little else is known of his postwar career.
"Peculiar institution" of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.
Stands for preserving slavery, states' rights, and political liberty for whites. Every individual state is sovereign, even to the point of secession.
Married Mary Tabb.
