{{Short description|Newfoundland lawyer and politician (1889–1958)}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = | honorific_suffix = MHA | image = | alt = | caption = | constituency_AM = Bay de Verde | alongside = <br>William Cave (1923–24)<br>John Puddester (1924–28) | assembly = Newfoundland House of | majority = | term_start = {{start date|1923|5|3}} | term_end = {{end date|1928|10|29}} | predecessor = Frederick LeGrow | successor = John Puddester (as sole member) | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1889|10|13}} | birth_place = Small Point, Newfoundland Colony | death_date = {{death date and age|1958|04|15|1889|10|13}} | death_place = St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada | spouse = {{marriage|Ollie Lynette Moores|1924}} | party = Liberal Reform (1923–24)<br>Liberal-Conservative Progressive (1924–28) | relations = | children = | education = Tilton Seminary<br>Wesleyan University | occupation = Lawyer | profession = | signature = | signature_alt = | footnotes = }} '''Richard Cramm''' (October 13, 1889<ref name=who/> – April 15, 1958) was a Newfoundland lawyer and politician. He represented Bay de Verde in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 1923 to 1928.<ref name=bio/>
== Education and law career ==
The son of John Cramm and Margaret King,<ref name=who/> he was born in Small Point and was educated in nearby Salem, at the Tilton Seminary in New Hampshire and at the Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. Upon returning home, Cramm published a book in 1921 called ''The First Five Hundred'' about the Royal Newfoundland Regiment during World War I.<ref name=bio>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns_enl/id/1022 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador |pages=555–56|title=Cramm, Richard}}</ref>
Cramm studied law and was admitted to practice as a solicitor in 1923. He was called to the Newfoundland bar in 1924 and was named King's Counsel in 1928.<ref name=bio/> In 1924, he married Ollie Lynette Moores.<ref name=who>{{cite book |url=http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns_tools/id/26919 |title=Who's who in and from Newfoundland |year=1927 |page=216}}</ref>
== Politics ==
Cramm was elected to the Newfoundland assembly in 1923 as a member of the Liberal Reform party led by Richard Squires. After Squires stepped down as party leader, he was a supporter of his successor William Warren.<ref name=bio/> However, after the Hollis Walker Report was released which recommended criminal charges against Squires,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.heritage.nf.ca/law/collapse_responsible_gov.html |title=Collapse of Responsible Government, 1929-1934 |work=Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage |publisher=Memorial University}}</ref> Cramm joined the opposition and moved the motion of no confidence which brought down Warren's administration.
Cramm was reelected in 1924 as a Liberal-Conservative led by Walter Monroe. He was named a minister without portfolio in the new cabinet and, in 1926, became acting Attorney General. Cramm was defeated in 1928 when he ran as an independent candidate in Carbonear. He returned to practising law in St. John's. In May and June 1932, he served as a minister without portfolio in the short-lived Squires cabinet.
In 1949, Cramm ran unsuccessfully as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the Canadian federal riding of Trinity—Conception.<ref name=bio/>
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== External links == * {{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/firstfivehundred00cramuoft |title=The first Five Hundred; being a historical sketch of the military operations of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment in Gallipoli and on the Western Front during the Great War (1914-1918) |year=1921 |last=Cramm |first=Richard|publisher=Albany, N.Y. C.F. Williams }}
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