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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—WashingtonElijah Sherman GRAMMER
(1868-1936)
Senate Years of Service:
1932-1933Party: RepublicanGRAMMER, Elijah Sherman, a
Senator from Washington; born in Quincy, Hickory County, Mo., April
3, 1868; attended the common schools and Bentonville (Ark.)
College; moved to Washington in 1887, where he was a logger and
general manager in logging camps near Tacoma; returned to
Bentonville (Ark.) College in 1892; went to Alaska in 1897 as
general manager of logging camps; returned to Washington in 1901
and located in Seattle; engaged as owner-logger in many companies;
served as president of the Employers’ Association of
Washington 1916-1917; during the First World War was appointed a
major in the United States Army, assigned to the spruce-production
division at Grays and Willapa Harbors 1918-1919; appointed on
November 22, 1932, as a Republican to the United States Senate to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of Wesley L. Jones and served
from November 22, 1932, to March 3, 1933; was not a candidate for
election to the full term; resumed his interests in the logging
business; also served as an officer of investment and railway
companies; died in Seattle, Wash., on November 19, 1936; interment
in Lakeview Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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