Louis C. Cramton

Louis Convers Cramton ( born December 2, 1875 in Hadley, Lapeer County, Michigan, † June 23, 1966 in Saginaw, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1931 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Louis Cramton attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1893, the Lapeer High School. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made ​​in 1899 admitted to the bar he began in Lapeer to work in his new profession. Between 1905 and 1923 he published the newspaper " Lapeer County Clarion ". He was also temporarily employed by the Senate from Michigan in the legal department of the administration. In 1907 he became deputy railroad commissioner of the state of Michigan. By 1909, he was also Secretary of the Railway Committee.

Politically, Cramton member of the Republican Party. In the years 1909 and 1910 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Michigan. In the congressional elections of 1912 he was in the seventh constituency of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Henry McMorran on March 4, 1913. After eight re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1931 nine legislative sessions. In this time were, among others, the First World War and the adoption of the 17th, the 18th and the 19th Amendment.

1930 Cramton was not nominated by his party for re-election. In the years 1931 and 1932 he worked for the Ministry of the Interior. Between 1934 and 1941 he was a judge in the 40th Judicial District of Michigan. In 1940 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia in part, on the Wendell Willkie was nominated as a presidential candidate. He then worked again as a lawyer. From 1948 to 1960 Cramton was again a deputy in the State Parliament. He died on June 23, 1966 in Saginaw.