Rousseau Owen Crump

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Rousseau Owen Crump (May 20, 1843 May 1, 1901) was a United States Congressman, businessman and mayor of West Bay City.

As a Congressman, he represented Michigan's 10th Congressional District. Crump was also a Member of the Michigan State House of Representatives.

Crump was born in Pittsford, Monroe County, New York and was educated in the the public school system in Pittsford and Rochester. He moved to Plainwell, Michigan in 1869, where, he engaged in the lumber business in Allegan and Kalamazoo counties, before moving to West Bay City in 1881 in order to found a sawmill and box factory.

In West Bay City (now part of Bay City), Crump served on the board of aldermen from 1889 to 1892 and was elected mayor in 1893, serving one term. In 1895, he was elected to the State house of representatives, serving until 1901. In addition, he concurrently served as a US Representative, having been elected as Republican to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses. In the Fifty-sixth Congress he served as chairman, United States House Committee on Mines and Mining.

Crump died in in West Bay City, aged 57, and is interred in Elm Lawn Cemetery in Bay City, Michigan.