John Cramer (representative)

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

Career

John Cramer was born during the War of Independence in Waterford. He attended rural schools and graduated in 1801 from Union College in Schenectady. Cramer studied law. After receiving his license to practice law, he began to practice in Waterford. In the presidential elections of 1804 Cramer ran as an elector ( presidential elector ) for the Democratic- Republican Party. Thomas Jefferson and George Clinton were the winners of the race. In 1805 he was appointed master on the New York Court of Chancery. He sat in the years 1806 and 1811 in the New York State Assembly and 1823-1825 in the Senate from New York. In 1821 he took part in the Constitutional Convention of New York as a delegate. Politically, he was a member at the time of the Jacksonian Group.

In the congressional elections of 1832 for the 23rd Congress Cramer was in the eleventh electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Erastus Root on March 4, 1833. After a successful re-election in 1834, he retired after March 3, 1837 out of the Congress.

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