Gary DeCramer

Gary Michael Decramer (* 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 ), which between 1983 and 1993 Member of the Senate of Minnesota was.

Life

After schooling Decramer studied at the Secondary College of St. Thomas English and finished this study with a Bachelor of Arts (BA English). A later post-graduate studies in English at the University of Oklahoma, he graduated with a Master of Arts (MA English). Then Decramer was that temporarily also visited a seminary, a teacher.

He was first elected in 1983 as a member of the Minnesota Senate and represented there for three terms until 1993 the 27th senatorial district. During his ten-year Senate membership, he dealt primarily with the issues of agriculture, education, transport and planning and, among other things, 1991-1992 Chairman of the Senate Committee on Transport ( Senate Transportation Committee ).

After retiring from the Senate, he was Director of the branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development (USDA Rural Development ) in Minnesota and interim president of today's Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall. Most recently, he worked for several years he was director of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, which offered a program of study in specialized administrative sciences, which closed with a Master of Arts (MA Public Affairs ).