Gary DeCramer

Gary Michael DeCramer (born September 13, 1944 in Marshall , Lyon County , Minnesota - †  March 7, 2012 in Morris , Minnesota) was an American university professor and politician of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), who between 1983 and served on the Minnesota Senate in 1993 .

Life

After schooling studied Decramer on Secondary College of St. Thomas English studies and this study ended with a Bachelor of Arts (BA English). He completed a later postgraduate degree in English at the University of Oklahoma with a Master of Arts (MA English). Then DeCramer, who also attended a seminary at times , worked as a teacher .

He was first elected as a member of the Minnesota Senate in 1983, where he represented the 27th Senate electoral district for three legislative terms until 1993  . During his ten-year tenure in the Senate, he mainly dealt with the issues of agriculture, education, traffic and planning and was among other things chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee from 1991 to 1992 .

After his retirement from the Senate, he was director of the US Department of Agriculture's branch for Rural Development ( USDA Rural Development ) in Minnesota and interim president of what is now Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall. Most recently, he was for several years director of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota , which offered a degree program in administrative sciences that led to a Master of Arts (MA in Public Affairs).

Web links

• Gary DeCramer, former Minnesota state senator, collapses and dies (twincities.com, March 9, 2012) ( accessed March 9, 2012)