Robert Crudup

Crudup was raised in Wilson County, Tennessee, where he farmed and taught school, served as a juryman and justice of the peace, and sat in the Tennessee legislature from 1843 to 1845. He moved to Waco in 1855 and was chief justice of McLennan County from 1868 to 1870. A Republican, he took his oath in the Texas House on April 26, 1870, and joined the Immigration Committee. He belonged to a small group of former slaveholders who had opposed secession and sought Black voters' support. He served only three months; the House paid $486.58 for his funeral.

What the plaque says

Robert Crudup Aug. 10, 1804 July 13, 1870 [Back of headstone] Crudup Member of the 12th Legislature

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Texas State Cemetery — steps away
  A hill east of the Capitol that began with one general's grave in 1851 and now holds Stephen F. Austin, governors, Barbara Jordan and more than 2,000 Confederate veterans and widows.
• French Legation State Historic Site — 0.3 mi
  A raised pine house built in 1840 and 1841 for France's envoy to the Republic of Texas, who left Austin in a rage over a neighbor's pigs before it was finished.
• George Washington Carver Museum — 0.4 mi
  East Austin's museum of Black history and culture, grown from a segregated branch library moved across town in 1933, with a permanent exhibit on Juneteenth at its core.
• Texas State Capitol — 1.0 mi
  Austin's fourth statehouse, a Renaissance Revival capitol of 1888 that stands 311 feet to its Goddess of Liberty and was restored after the 1983 fire.

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