His mother, Pauline Hammond Creasy, worked briefly as a court recorder in Union County, Kentucky, where her father was a judge.

He was a member of Phi Delta Kappa fraternity, and was elected student body president at Ohio Wesleyan from 1954 to 1955.

As chairman of the state welfare committee in the House of Representatives, he authored Medicaid and food stamp legislation that expanded aid to Ohio residents.

After seven terms in the Ohio House of Representatives, Creasy retired and resumed his career as an educator, teaching social studies and government at Rutherford B. Hayes High School.

After retiring, he was elected a Delaware County Commissioner, and served in this post until he died unexpectedly of a heart attack in 1992.