Philip M. Crane

A Representative from Illinois. Born in Chicago, Cook County, Ill. , November 3, 1930. Attended DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind. , University of Michigan, and the University of Vienna. B. A. , Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Mich. , 1952. M. A. , Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind. , 1961. Ph. D. , Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind. , 1963. United States Army, 1954-1956. Faculty, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind. , and Bradley University, Peoria, Ill. Staff, Republican National Party, 1962. Director of research for the Illinois Goldwater Organization, 1964. Director of schools, Westminster Academy, Northbrook, Ill. , 1967-1968. Staff for Richard Nixon, 1964-1968. Director, Intercollegiate Studies Institute since 1968. Elected as a Republican to the Ninety-first Congress by special election to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States Representative Donald Rumsfeld. Reelected to the seventeen succeeding Congresses (November 25, 1969-January 3, 2005). Unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Ninth Congress in 2004. Appointed by President Reagan in 1986 to serve on the Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution. Died on November 8, 2014, in Jefferson, Md. Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery, Hillsboro, Ind.