John Cramer (politician)

John Cramer (born May 17, 1779 in Waterford , New York , † June 1, 1870 there ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1833 and 1837 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Cramer was born in Waterford during the Revolutionary War . He attended village schools and graduated from Union College in Schenectady in 1801 . Cramer studied law . After receiving his license to practice law, he began practicing in Waterford. In the presidential election of 1804 Cramer appeared as an elector ( presidential elector ) for the Democratic-Republican Party of. Thomas Jefferson and George Clinton emerged victorious from the race. In 1805 he was appointed a master at the New York Court of Chancery . He was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1806 to 1811, and the New York Senate from 1823 to 1825 . In 1821 he took part as a delegate to the New York Constituent Assembly . Politically, he belonged to the Jacksonian faction at that time .

In the congressional elections of 1832 for the 23rd Congress , Cramer was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eleventh constituency of New York , where he succeeded Erastus Root on March 4, 1833 . After a successful re-election in 1834 , he retired from after March 3, 1837 Congress of.

In 1842 he was back in the New York State Assembly. He died on June 1, 1870 in Waterford and was then buried in the Waterford Rural Cemetery .

literature

• Franklin Benjamin Hough: "The New York civil list," Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 57, 72f, 79, 125f, 140, 185, 226 and 268.

Web links

• John Cramer in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• John Cramer in the database of Find a Grave (English)