Stephen Crane (Continental Congress)

Stephen Crane
Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly
In office
1770–1772
GovernorWilliam Franklin
Preceded byCortlandt Skinner
Succeeded byCortlandt Skinner
Member of the New Jersey General Assembly
from the Essex County district
In office
1766–1775
Serving with John Ogden, Henry Garritse
Member of New Jersey Legislative Council
In office
1776–1778
Preceded byOffice created
Succeeded byAbraham Clark
In office
1779–1780
Preceded byAbraham Clark
Succeeded byJames Caldwell
Personal details
Born1709
Elizabethtown, New Jersey
DiedJuly 1, 1780
Elizabethtown, New Jersey
Resting placeFirst Presbyterian Churchyard, Elizabeth
NationalityAmerican
SpousePhebe

Stephen Crane (1709 – July 1, 1780) was an American politician from Elizabethtown (present-day Elizabeth, New Jersey) who was a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1776 and signed the Continental Association. He also served in the Provincial Congress of New Jersey, New Jersey General Assembly and New Jersey Legislative Council. Stephen did not attend the next Congress in Philadelphia as he needed to attend to divisions in his own state between East Jersey and West Jersey. He felt deeply about the taxes that Britain had imposed upon the Colonies and had made sure of his protest upon his journey to England with Matthias Hatfield.