Howard K. Cramer

CA Blue Book

Date	Party	Office	Votes	Result
11-05-1946	Republican	AD-80	33798	Win
11-02-1948	Republican	AD-80	34858	Win

Candidate Biography:

Born: April 9, 1903 in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania
Married: Elva I. DeGraw (in 1936)
Military Service: USMC, USN (WWII), ARMY
Died: March 1, 1986 in Pima, Arizona

1949: Resigned from the State Assembly on May 28.

• INTEGRITY: Cramer resigned from the Assembly "to avoid going bankrupt 'or selling my integrity". From his resignation; "I regret that circumstances make it impossible for me to continue to serve the people of my district and State in the Legislature, but the salary which I receive as a legislator is insufficient to warrant my maintaining a home in Sacramento..."

Source: California Blue Book (1950)
Source: "Assemblyman Resigns, Due to Pay Scale" Los Angeles Times, 5/29/1949 (p. A6)
Source: Social Security Death Index (website).