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Thomas T. Crittenden,
Jr., was born in Sangamon County, Illinois, December 23, 1863, his
family moving some few years later to Warrensburg, Mo., where his
boyhood was spent. He graduated from the public schools of that
city and from the State University in 1883. He came to Kansas
City in 1884, going into the real estate business soon after his
arrival, and worked at the business three years, when he was appointed
Deputy Clerk of the Court of Appeals. He was the Democratic
nominee for County Clerk in 1894, was elected, and was again nominated
and elected to the same office at the close of his first term in 1898,
each time carrying both city and county by handsome majorities.
He is now being mentioned as Democracy's candidate for Secretary of
State. Aside from politics, Mr. Crittenden is interested in a
number of business enterprises, all of which are successful. He
is purely of the fighting temperament when personal interests or those
of his friends are assailed, yet it is all tempered by a fine quality
of justice that renders enmities scarce.
Mr. Crittenden was married January 5, 1888,
to Miss Jennie Mason Rogers, whose father was a former president of
Christian College, Columbia, Mo. They have two children, a son, Joseph
R., and a daughter, Mason A., their ages being five and two years
respectfully.
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