Elijah S. Grammer

Elijah Sherman Grammer ( born April 3, 1868 in Quincy, Hickory County, Missouri, † November 19, 1936 in Seattle, Washington) was an American politician who represented the Washington State in the U.S. Senate.

Biography

Elijah Grammer was born into a large family into it. He was the third youngest of eight children of John W. Grammer and his second wife, Sarah Frances Miller. He graduated after attending the compulsory schools, the College in Bentonville, Arkansas and moved for the first time in 1887 in the state of Washington. Grammer was active in the Union as a statistician and collecting the data in the two years prior to the start of Washington. He also directed himself such a base in Tacoma. In 1892, Grammer returned to Bentonville back to complete college, before he moved to Alaska in 1897. Here he worked for the next four years as well as a statistician and collecting the data. 1901 moved Grammer back to Washington, where he worked for numerous companies in his profession as an independent statistician. From 1916 to 1917, Grammer was appointed president of the union employees of Washington. In the years 1918 and 1919 Grammer served as a Major in the First World War.

Policy

After the death of Wesley Livsey Jones Grammer was the party member of the Republican, was appointed his successor as Senator of the United States on 22 November 1932. Grammer term of four months to March 3, 1933, the date the shortest in the history of the Senators from Washington.

Grammer himself was not interested in re-election and returned to his office back to Seattle. Here he died three years later, in November 1936 at a thrombosis.