CRANE, Philip Miller (1930-2014)
Republican of Illinois 
8th congressional district
Served in House 1969-2004
Biography
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.Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
