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CRABB, George W., jurist, born in Tennessee; died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1847. He removed to Alabama at an early age, settled at Tuscaloosa, then the capital, was assistant secretary of the senate, and afterward state comptroller. He served with distinction in the Florida war of 1836 as lieutenant colonel of Chisolm's regiment of Alabama volunteers, was elected to the state senate, and became major general of the militia. In 1838 he was elected to congress as a Whig, to fill a vacancy, and re-elected the same year, but was defeated in 1840. He supported Polk for president in 1844, and was appointed judge of the Mobile county court in 1846, but was overtaken by a malady for which he spent a winter in Cuba, afterward going to Philadelphia for medical treatment, and there died.
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