Samuel Johnson Crawford was an American Civil War General in the Union armies, and the third Governor of Kansas. He also served as one of the first members of the Kansas Legislature.
Time in Office: January 9, 1865 - November 4, 1868; resigned to take command of the 19th Kansas Regiment.
Born: April 10, 1835, Lawrence County, Indiana.
Died: October 21, 1913, Topeka, Kansas.
Republican lawyer from Garnett. The youngest man to serve as Kansas governor; aged 29 years when he took office.
Website about this Governor:
- Governor Records - Crawford, 1865-1868
- Crawford biography on the National Governors Association website.
- Crawford biography on Wikipedia
- Crawford's Inaugural and Annual Messages on the Kansas State Library website.
- Philip Henry Sheridan to Governor Samuel Johnson Crawford (General Philip Henry Sheridan, a veteran of the Civil War, wrote this telegram to the Governor of Kansas to inform him of the current state of affairs in western Kansas)
- S. J. Crawford Copies of Letters Sent and Essay, 1868-1905 on the KSHS Website
- Report of the Hon. S.J. Crawford to the governor of Kansas: in the matter of the claims of the state against the United States. November 28, 1884
- Frontier Governor: Samuel J. Crawford of Kansas, Hardcover – 1971 by Mark A Plummer
