Charles Kramer

Charles Kramer (born April 18, 1879 in Paducah , Kentucky , †  January 20, 1943 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American politician . Between 1933 and 1943 he represented the state of California in the US House of Representatives .

Career

While he was still a child, Charles Kramer came to Chicago , Illinois , where he later attended public schools. After a subsequent law degree at the Illinois College of Law and DePaul University in Chicago and his admission to the bar in 1904, he began to work in this profession in Chicago. In the meantime he was also the director of a clothing factory there. In 1920 he moved to Los Angeles, where he also practiced as a lawyer. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party .

In the 1932 congressional elections , Kramer was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the then newly established 13th  constituency of California , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1933. After four re-elections, he was able to complete five legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1943 . During this time, the New Deal laws of the federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt were passed there until 1941 . Since 1941, the work of the Congress was also shaped by the events of World War II .

From 1939 Kramer was chairman of the sponsorship committee. In 1941 he sought unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for the office of mayor of Los Angeles. In 1942 he was defeated by Republican Norris Poulson . Charles Kramer died in Los Angeles on January 20, 1943, just 17 days after the end of his last term in Congress.

Web links

• Charles Kramer in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Charles Kramer in the database of Find a Grave (English)