Thomas Spencer Crago (August 8, 1866 – September 12, 1925) was a

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member of the

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from

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. Thomas S. Crago was born in

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. He attended Greene Academy and

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. He graduated from

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in 1893. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar of

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in 1894 and commenced practice in

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. He served as captain of Company K in the Tenth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry during the

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and the Philippine–American War. After the war helped to reorganize the

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and was elected major and later lieutenant colonel of the Tenth Infantry (later reorganized into the 110th Infantry Regiment). He resigned his commission while in Congress but was later retired with the rank of colonel. He was a delegate to the

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. Crago was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1912. He served as commander in chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in 1914 and 1915. He was again elected to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1920, but was subsequently elected to the Sixty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mahlon M. Garland. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1922. Thomas Spencer Crago

He was appointed special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States on March 7, 1923, and was assigned to the War Frauds Division. He resigned August 15, 1924. He served as vice president of the Union Deposit & Trust Co. of

. He died in Waynesburg, aged 59, and interred in Green Mount Cemetery.

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