Maurice E. Crumpacker

Maurice Edgar Crumpacker (December 19, 1886 – July 24, 1927) was an American lawyer, World War I veteran, and politician who served two terms as a Republican U.S. congressman from Oregon from 1925 until his death in 1927.

Early life Crumpacker (middle row, second from left) was the starting right tackle for the 1908 Michigan Wolverines football teamCrumpacker was born in Valparaiso, Indiana in 1886, where he attended the public schools until his father, Edgar D. Crumpacker, was elected to the United States House of Representatives when Maurice was 10 years old. (Crumpacker's cousin, Shepard J. Crumpacker, Jr., would also serve in the House of Representatives representing Indiana.

After graduating from Michigan in 1909, Crumpacker studied law at Harvard University School of Law and was admitted to the bar in 1912. He was eventually promoted to captain of the division and was honorably discharged in 1918.

He was found later that day on a curb, acting strangely and claiming he had been poisoned. He was eventually subdued, handcuffed, and taken to the hospital, where the evaluating physician noted that he appeared to be "under a great nervous strain" and showing "symptoms of a paranoiac." Crumpacker left several notes indicating that he believed he had been murdered by his friends.

His Portland home, the Maurice Crumpacker House, was built by acclaimed Portland architect Wade Hampton Pipes and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.