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Cramer was a key player in the revival of the Republican Party in Florida through the mid-20th century, taking advantage of the state's changing demographics, as new Republican migrants came to Florida from the North, especially [[New York]], and [[Cuban]] Americans and other minorities became Republicans. Beginning in 1964, Cramer also represented his state for twenty years on the [[Republican National Committee]] and served as RNC counsel for six years.<ref name=nytobit>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/27/us/william-c-cramer-81-a-leader-of-gop-resurgence-in-south.html|author=Wolfgang Saxon|title=William C. Cramer, 81, a Leader of G.O.P. Resurgence in South"|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|date=October 27, 2003|accessdate=March 12, 2021}}</ref>  

Cramer was a key player in the revival of the Republican Party in Florida through the mid-20th century, taking advantage of the state's changing demographics, as new Republican migrants came to Florida from the North, especially [[New York]], and [[Cuban]] Americans and other minorities became Republicans. Beginning in 1964, Cramer also represented his state for twenty years on the [[Republican National Committee]] and served as RNC counsel for six years.<ref name=nytobit>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/27/us/william-c-cramer-81-a-leader-of-gop-resurgence-in-south.html|author=Wolfgang Saxon|title=William C. Cramer, 81, a Leader of G.O.P. Resurgence in South"|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|date=October 27, 2003|accessdate=March 12, 2021}}</ref>  

In 1949, Cramer switched his partisan affiliation from [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] to Republican.<ref>"Cramer v. Kirk,"  p. 404.</ref> largely because of disfranchisement of [[African American]], whorican American]]s as voters since the turn of the century by discriminatory application of the state constitution and subsequent laws Blacks formerly comprised the majority of the Republican Party voters.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V4__EYITWk4C&pg=PA128&lpg=PA128&dq=Effects+of+southern+black+disfranchisement+on+1912+presidential+election&source=bl&ots=F31l2NP4PO&sig=cAQNnWwy2xvEHNUKD-ULjOp0OKo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=T6grU6LbDpKCyAGpv4GgCg&ved=0CEUQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Effects%20of%20southern%20black%20disfranchisement%20on%201912%20presidential%20election&f=false|title=Richard M. Valelly|title=The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement''|date=2009|publisher=University of Chicago Press|page=146-147.</ref> University of Chicago Press, 2009, pp. 146-147]</ref>

In 1949, Cramer switched his partisan affiliation from [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] to Republican.<ref>"Cramer v. Kirk,"  p. 404.</ref> largely because of disfranchisement of [[African American]], whorican American]]s as voters since the turn of the century by discriminatory application of the state constitution and subsequent laws Blacks formerly comprised the majority of the Republican Party voters.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V4__EYITWk4C&pg=PA128&lpg=PA128&dq=Effects+of+southern+black+disfranchisement+on+1912+presidential+election&source=bl&ots=F31l2NP4PO&sig=cAQNnWwy2xvEHNUKD-ULjOp0OKo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=T6grU6LbDpKCyAGpv4GgCg&ved=0CEUQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Effects%20of%20southern%20black%20disfranchisement%20on%201912%20presidential%20election&f=false|author=Richard M. Valelly|title=The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement|date=2009|publisher=University of Chicago Press|page=146-147.</ref> University of Chicago Press, 2009, pp. 146-147]</ref>

 

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