{{Short description|American politician (1930–2007)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = John Grenier | birth_date = {{birth date|1930|8|24}} | death_date = {{death date and age|2007|11|6|1930|8|24}} | death_place = Houston, Texas, U.S. | birth_place = New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. | office = Chair of the Alabama Republican Party | term_start = 1962 | term_end = 1964 | predecessor = Claude O. Vardaman | successor = Thomas H. Bingham | party = Republican }}
'''John Edward Grenier''' (August 24, 1930 – November 6, 2007) was a figure in the 1964 presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater.<ref name= "leader">{{cite news |last=Hevesi |first=Dennis |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/10/us/10grenier.html |title=John Grenier, considered architect of Alabama GOP, dies |work=The New York Times |date=November 10, 2007 |access-date=April 7, 2021}}</ref> Grenier is one of the figures credited with using the Southern Strategy in that campaign and one of the figures responsible for the rise of the Republican Party in Alabama.<ref name= "Republican">{{cite news |last=Callahan |first=Nancy |url=https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/DA/20071202/News/606127494/TL |title=Alabama's Mr. Republican |work=The Tuscaloosa News |date=December 2, 2007 |access-date=April 7, 2021 |archive-date=September 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210922022337/https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/DA/20071202/News/606127494/TL |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name= "architect">{{cite news |last=Sims |first=Bob |url= https://www.al.com/spotnews/2007/11/john_grenier_considered_archit.html |title=John Grenier, considered architect of Alabama GOP, dies |work=The Birmingham News |date=November 7, 2007 |access-date=April 7, 2021}}</ref>
Grenier ran for the United States Senate in 1966 against John Sparkman.<ref name="Permaloff & Grafton">{{cite book |last=Permaloff |first=Anne; Grafton, Carl |title=Political Power in Alabama: The More Things Change ... |publisher=University of Georgia Press p. 239 |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-8203-3189-8}}</ref> Grenier only won 39 percent of the vote but it was the highest percentage that anybody had won against Sparkman in Sparkman's Senate career.
Grenier was also involved in the campaign of Alabama Republican Guy Hunt and the controversies which followed Hunt during his term in office.
For many years, Grenier also worked as a litigator for Lange Simpson Robinson and Somerville, one of the oldest and most distinguished law firms in Birmingham, Alabama.
Grenier died of lung cancer on November 6, 2007, in a hospital in Houston, Texas aged 77.
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