Elijah S. Grammer

Elijah S. Grammer

Elijah Sherman Grammer (born April 3, 1868 in Quincy , Hickory County , Missouri , †  November 19, 1936 in Seattle , Washington ) was an American politician who represented the state of Washington in the US Senate .

biography

Elijah Grammer was born into an extended family. He was the third youngest of eight children of John W. Grammer and his second wife, Sarah Frances Miller. After attending compulsory schools, he graduated from college in Bentonville , Arkansas, and moved to Washington State for the first time in 1887. Here Grammer worked as a statistician and data collector in the two years before Washington joined the Union. He also managed such a base in Tacoma himself . In 1892, Grammer returned to Bentonville to complete college before moving to Alaska in 1897 . Here he also worked as a statistician and data collector for the next four years. In 1901 Grammer moved back to Washington, where he worked as a freelance statistician for numerous companies. From 1916 to 1917, Grammer was named union president for Washington employees. In the years 1918 and 1919 served Grammer as Major in the First World War .

politics

After the death of Wesley Livsey Jones , Grammer, who was a Republican party member , was appointed to his successor as United States Senator on November 22, 1932. Grammer's term of four months ended March 3, 1933, was the shortest in the history of Washington Senators.

Grammer himself was not interested in re-election and returned to his Seattle office. Here he died three years later, in November 1936, of a thrombosis .

Web links

• Elijah S. Grammer in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)