Civil War Union Major General. Son of US Senator John J. Crittenden, younger brother of Confederate Brigadier General George Bibb Crittenden, and cousin of Union Brigadier General Thomas Turpin Crittenden. Son is John Jordan Crittenden who died during the Battle of Little Big Horn. After the war Thomas was U. S. Consul to Liverpool, England and then was the State Treasurer of Kentucky. His wife was Catherine (Kitty) Lucy Todd who was the daughter of his father's second wife and the wife's first husband.
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