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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—FloridaWilliam Cato CRAMER
(1922-2003)
CRAMER, William Cato, a
Representative from Florida; born in Denver, Colo., August 4, 1922;
attended the public schools and St. Petersburg Junior College;
United States Naval Reserves, 1943-1946; graduated from the
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., 1946; graduated
from Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, Mass, 1948; lawyer,
private practice; member of the Florida state house of
representatives, 1950-1952; unsuccessful candidate for election to
the Eighty-third Congress in 1952; delegate or alternate delegate
to the Republican National Conventions, 1952-1984; Republican
National Committeeman from Florida, 1964-1984; county attorney for
Pinellas County, Fla., 1953-1954; elected as a Republican to the
Eighty-fourth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3,
1955-January 3, 1971); was not a candidate for reelection, but was
an unsuccessful nominee for the United States Senate in 1970; died
on October 18, 2003, in St. Petersburg, Fla.; interment in Woodlawn
Memory Gardens, St. Petersburg, Fla.
Bibliography
Hathorn, Billy B. “Cramer v. Kirk: The Florida Republican
Schism of 1970.” Florida Historical Quarterly 68
(April 1990): 403-26.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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