John William Crutcher (December 19, 1916 – March 13, 2017) was an American politician. Crutcher served in the

Kansas State Senate The Kansas Senate is the upper house of the Kansas Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. State of Kansas. It is composed of 40 senators elected from single-member districts, each with a population of at least 60,000 inhabitants. Members o ...

from 1953 to 1957. He was the 35th

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from 1965 to 1969. Crutcher served as Commissioner of the

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from 1982 to 1993, and as a member of the National Transportation Policy Study Commission. He was an alumnus of the

University of Kansas The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States, and several satellite campuses, research and educational centers, medical centers, and classes across the state of Kansas. Tw ...

(1940) and a veteran of the

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and

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. Crutcher died at his home in

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in March 2017 at the age of 100.

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