Sir John Oscar Cramer (18 February 1896 – 18 May 1994) was an Australian politician, representing the Liberal Party of Australia, of which he was a founding member.
In 1922 he married Mary Therese (maiden name and date of birth unknown), who in 1939, assumed the duties of lady mayoress of North Sydney. She later organised a Voluntary Aid Detachment for North Sydney at the beginning of World War II, as well as the first group of the Women's Austra...
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Sir John Oscar Cramer (18 February 1896 – 18 May 1994) was an Australian politician, representing the Liberal Party of Australia, of which he was a founding member.
In 1922 he married Mary Therese (maiden name and date of birth unknown), who in 1939, assumed the duties of lady mayoress of North Sydney. She later organised a Voluntary Aid Detachment for North Sydney at the beginning of World War II, as well as the first group of the Women's Australian National Service in Sydney and became its first commandant (see biography for Dame Mary Cramer). For these services to Australia she was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1971, thereafter known publicly as Dame Mary Cramer. She died in 1984.
John Cramer was elected as Mayor of North Sydney in 1939. Later he was Chairman of the Sydney County Council. He was elected to the House of Representatives as the inaugural representative of the seat of Bennelong on its creation in 1949. In 1956, the Prime Minister Robert...
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