William W. Crapo

{{Short description|American politician (1830–1926)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = William Wallace Crapo | image = William Wallace Crapo.png | state = [[Massachusetts]] | district = [[Massachusetts's 1st congressional district|1st]] | term = November 2, 1875 – March 3, 1883 | preceded = [[James Buffington (Fall River, Massachusetts)|James Buffinton]] | succeeded = [[Robert T. Davis]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1830|5|16|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[Dartmouth, Massachusetts]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1926|2|28|1830|5|16|mf=y}} | death_place = [[New Bedford, Massachusetts]], U.S. | spouse = | profession = Attorney | alma_mater = Yale University<br>[[Harvard Law School|Dane Law School]] | party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] }}

'''William Wallace Crapo''' (May 16, 1830 – February 28, 1926) was a member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] from [[Massachusetts]]. He was elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Buffinton. He served slightly more than three terms in congress from November 2, 1875 to March 3, 1883<ref>The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in Congress, p. 128-134.</ref>

Born in [[Dartmouth, Massachusetts]], died in [[New Bedford]], Massachusetts. Crapo is interred in the Rural Cemetery. He was a prominent attorney in New Bedford. Among his clients was [[Hetty Green]].

William Wallace Crapo was a brother of the [[Alpha Delta Phi]] fraternity in his undergraduate years at [[Yale University]]. He graduated in 1852 and was a member of [[Skull and Bones]].<ref name="Yaleobit192526">{{cite web | url=http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1925_1952/1925-26.pdf | title=OBITUARY RECORD OF YALE GRADUATES 1925-1926 | access-date=March 26, 2011 | date=August 1, 1926 | publisher=Yale University | archive-date=July 9, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709184935/http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1925_1952/1925-26.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref>{{rp|3}} On April 15, 1851, Crapo visited [[Brown University]], on which date he is credited with initiating 17 members of the provisional chapter there, re-activating the ten-years-dormant [[Alpha Delta Phi#The Society|Brunonian Chapter]].

In 1903, Crapo (pronounced cray-poe) was a founding member and first president of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society, governing body of the [[New Bedford Whaling Museum]].

==Personal life== Crapo was the son of [[Governor of Michigan]] [[Henry H. Crapo]] (1804–1869), who also served as the mayor of [[Flint, Michigan]] and in the Michigan State Senate. His mother, Mary Ann (Slocum) Crapo (1805–1875), was a descendant of [[William Hutchinson (Rhode Island judge)]] and his wife [[Anne Hutchinson]], daughter of [[Francis Marbury]]. His second cousin, three times removed is [[Mike Crapo]], who served as a [[United States representative]] from Idaho 1993-1999 and has served as a [[United States senator]] from Idaho since 1999. His nephew was [[William C. Durant]], co-founder of [[General Motors]].

Crapo married Sarah Ann Davis Tappan (October 6, 1831 in Newburyport, MA-December 13, 1893 in New Bedford, MA) on January 20, 1857 in New Bedford. They had four children: *Henry Howland Crapo II (January 5, 1862 in New Bedford, MA-November 26, 1951 in Leesburg, FL) *George Tappan Crapo (March 16, 1864 in New Bedford, MA-September 12, 1865 in New Bedford, MA) *Stanford Tappan Crapo (June 13, 1865 in New Bedford, MA-January 26, 1939 in Tryon, NC); married Emma Caroline Morley (January 6, 1872 in Fort Scott, KS-November 27, 1937 in Detroit, MI) on October 10, 1894 in Painesville, OH **William Wallace Crapo II (1895–1991) **Catherine Tappan Crapo (1897–1977); married Capt. John Morgan Bullard, US Army (1890–1965) ***Dr. John Crapo Bullard (1921–2002); married Katherine G. Kilburn (1922–2005) ****John Kilburn Bullard (1947-; served as Mayor of New Bedford, Massachusetts from 1986 to 1992 ***Sarah Bullard (1924–1942) **[[Mary Eccles, Viscountess Eccles|Mary Morley Crapo (1912–2003)]]; married 1st Donald Frizell Hyde (1909–1966); married 2nd [[David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/27/style/mary-hyde-is-wed-to-viscount-eccles.html|title= Mary Hyde Is Wed to Viscount Eccles |work=The New York Times |date=27 September 1984|access-date=3 October 2022}}</ref> ***Anne Howland Hyde (1941–1941) *Anna Almy Crapo (November 20, 1866 in New Bedford, MA-April 27, 1867 in New Bedford, MA)

== See also == * ''[[The Whaleman]]'' - A monument in New Bedford commissioned by Crapo

==References== <references/> * {{CongBio|C000881}} * Headley, Phineas Camp: ''Public men of to-day: being biographies of the President and Vice-President of the United States, each member of the Cabinet, the United States Senators and the members of the House of Representatives of the Forty-Seventh Congress, the Chief Justice and justices of the Supreme Court of the United States''., page 345 (1882).

==External links== * {{Internet Archive author |sname=William W. Crapo |sopt=t}}

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