Crump, George J.
George J. Crump was an officer in the Civil War and the Brooks-Baxter War. He was a prominent attorney in Carrollton (Carroll County) and Harrison (Boone County). He served in the Arkansas House of Representatives, as county clerk of Carroll County, and as a Democratic delegate for the Third Congressional District to the Arkansas Constitutional Convention of 1917–1918. He was also a U.S. marshal for the Western District of Arkansas. George James Crump was born in Harlan, Kentucky, on June 13, 1841, to John Gray Crump and Elizabeth Gaither Watkins Crump. In 1854, he moved with his family to Carroll County, where his father farmed and practiced law in Carrollton. Crump attended private schools there. Crump fought for the Confederacy …
