William C. Cramer

William Cato Cramer (August 4, 1922 - October 18, 2003) was a U.S. Representative from Florida.

Born in Denver, Colorado, Cramer attended the public schools and St. Petersburg Junior College. United States Naval Reserves from 1943 to 1946.He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1946.He graduated from Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, Mass, 1948.He was a lawyer in private practice.He served as member of the Florida House of Representatives from 1950 to 1952.He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Eighty-third Congress in 1952.He served as delegate or alternate delegate to the Republican National Conventions from 1952 to 1984.He was in the Republican National Committeeman from Florida from 1964 to 1984. County attorney for Pinellas County, Florida from 1953 to 1954.

Cramer was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fourth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1955-January 3, 1971).He was not a candidate for reelection, but was an unsuccessful nominee for the United States Senate in 1970, having been defeated in the general election by the Democrat, Lawton Chiles of Lakeland.He died on October 18, 2003, in St. Petersburg, Florida.He was interred in Woodlawn Memory Gardens, St. Petersburg, Florida.

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