US Congressman, Entrepreneur, Lawyer, Judge. He was a United States Representative from the State of Massachusetts. He was born one of four children as John Crawford Crosby to John Crawford Crosby Sr. (1829-1902), and his wife Margaret Elizabeth Crawford Crosby (1829-1910), in Sheffield, Massachusetts, on June 15, 1859. He was educated locally and attended the local common public schools of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and then attended and graduated from the prestigious Eastman Business College in Poughkeepsie, New York, and from the prestigious Boston University School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts. He was then admitted to the bar in 1882, and he commenced his practice of law shortly thereafter. During this time, he also became interested in politics and served a term as a Member of the School Committee in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, before engaging in higher-up political roles. He also served as a Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1886 to 1887, and the Massachusetts State Senate from 1888 to 1889. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected to succeed the outgoing United States Representative Francis Williams Rockwell (1844-1929), on March 4, 1891. A Member of the Democratic Party, he then served Massachusetts's 12th District (Fifty-Second Congress), in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1891, to March 3, 1893. He was an unsuccessful Candidate for reelection to represent the Fifty-Third Congress in 1892. In total, he was elected in 1890 and lost reelection in 1892. Following his term in the United States Congress, he was succeeded in office by the incoming United States Representative Elijah Adams Morse (1841-1898), on March 4, 1893. After leaving the United States Congress, he was elected to serve a term as the Third Mayor of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, from 1894 to 1895. He was preceded in that post by Jabez L. Peck (1826-1895), a businessman and politician who served on the Common Council, and Board of Aldermen, and was succeeded in that post by Walter Foxcroft Hawkins (1863-1922), a local political figure and an attorney. He also served as a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention which was held at the Chicago Coliseum in Chicago, Illinois, from July 7, 1896, to July 11, 1896, with the likes of William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925), the prominent lawyer, orator, and politician, and Arthur Sewall (1835-1900), a shipbuilder from the State of Maine, who was best known as the Democratic nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1896, in attendance. He also served as a Pittsfield City Solicitor for Pittsfield, Massachusetts, from 1895 to 1900, was also a Candidate for Lieutenant Governor of the State of Massachusetts in 1904, and was then appointed to serve a term as an Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court from January 25, 1905, to December 31, 1913. He was lastly then appointed to serve a term as an Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from December 31, 1913, until his retirement on October 1, 1937. At the time of his retirement on October 1, 1937, it was estimated that he had written over 1,300 opinions as an Associate Justice. He was also a successful businessman having served as a director of a bank and later of fire and life insurance companies. In his retirement and until his death, he owned a 50-acre Sabine farm where he kept horses, and cows, and had a large victory garden. He also owned a large 400-acre estate, Mountain, on the ridge of the Taconics, a mountain range located in New York State. He passed away at his residence following a heart attack in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on October 14, 1943, at the age of 84. Following his death, his funeral services were held privately but they were held at the family residence on West Street in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, with the Reverend John William Gratton (1887-1953), Pastor of the First Church of Christ Congregational in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, officiating. Following the funeral services, he was buried in the Family Plot in Pittsfield Cemetery in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He was married to Henrietta Richards Crosby (1859-1946), on February 4, 1897. The couple had no children together. His wife Mary survived him and she passed away on August 19, 1956, at the age of 87, and she is also buried in the Family Plot Pittsfield Cemetery in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.