David E. Crawley

David Ephraim Crawley was born on February 11, 1886, in Center, Attala County, Mississippi.^[1] He was the son of Dr. James Tanner Crawley and Lucy Catherine (Dicken) Crawley.^[1] Crawley attended the common schools of Center and then attended Kosciusko High School.^[1] He entered the University of Mississippi in 1904 and graduated with a law degree in 1911.^[1] Then, he began practicing law in Kosciusko and Carthage, Mississippi.^[1] Crawley represented the 22nd district, which consisted of Attala County, in the Mississippi State Senate from 1916 to 1920.^[1][2] He was a Captain in the U. S. Field Artillery during World War I.^[1][2] From 1936 to 1937, he was the state commander of the American Legion and the President of the Mississippi Bar Association.^[2] He served in the Senate again from 1940 to 1944.^[3][2] He died in Kosciusko on November 29, 1946.^[2]