Charles Kramer (politician)

Charles Kramer ( born April 18, 1879 in Paducah, Kentucky; † January 20, 1943 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1943 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Even in his childhood came Charles Kramer to Chicago, Illinois, where he later attended the public schools. After a subsequent law degree at the Illinois College of Law and DePaul University in Chicago and his 1904 was admitted as a lawyer in Chicago, he began to work in this profession. There he was now also a director of a clothing factory. In 1920 he moved to Los Angeles, where he also practiced law. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1932, Kramer was in the then newly established 13th electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1933. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1943 five legislative sessions. During this time, the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government there were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt until 1941. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War was marked.

Since 1939, Kramer was chairman of the sponsoring committee. In 1941, he unsuccessfully sought the nomination of his party for the office of Mayor of Los Angeles. In 1942 he was defeated by Republican Norris Poulson. Charles Kramer died on January 20, 1943 in Los Angeles, only 17 days after the end of his last term in Congress.