US Congressman. From 1898 to 1902, he was city attorney of Fort Smith and as prosecuting attorney for the twelfth judicial district of Arkansas, 1902-1908. In 1907, he was elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth, Sixty-first, and Sixty-second Congresses. He was reelected in 1933, to the Seventy-third and to three succeeding Congresses serving until his death. His son William Fadjo Cravens of Arkansas, was elected to the Seventy-Sixth Congress, to fill the term of his vacancy.