Life
He graduated LL.B. from Columbia University Law School.
He married Gertrude Craven, from Montreal, and they had a daughter Dorothy Braddock Crane.
He was a judge of the Kings County Court from 1902 to 1906, elected on the Fusion ticket headed by Seth Low for Mayor of New York City.
He was a justice of the New York Supreme Court from 1907 to 1920, elected on the Republican ticket. In 1913, in a suit for separation brought by Gardner L. Field against his wife Adelaide, Justice Crane held that a household is managed by the wife, not by the mother of the husband, and that a wife is not obliged to live with the husband if a mother-in-law makes the home unpleasant. He dismissed the suit, dealing a "crushing blow to the mother-in-law system." In 1918, he issued a ruling which allowed doctors to prescribe contraception.
In January 1917, he was appointed a judge of the New York Court of Appeals under the Amendment of 1899. In 1920, he was elected to a 14-year term on the Court of Appeals. In 1934, he was elected Chief Judge on the Republican and Democratic tickets. He was the President of the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1938. He retired from the bench at the end of 1939 when he reached the constitutional age limit of 70 years.
He was buried at the Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York.
His sister Ida Elizabeth Crane was married to Judge Edwin Louis Garvin.
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