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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|author=Richard M. Valelly|title=The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement|date=2009|publisher=University of Chicago Press|page=146-147}}</ref>

In 1949, Cramer switched his partisan affiliation from [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] to Republican<ref>"Cramer v. Kirk,"  p. 404.</ref> at the urging of his law partner, [[Herman Goldner]], subsequently the [[mayor]] of St. Petersburg, who refused to support [[Barry Goldwater]] in 1964 and later turned Democrat. At the time, statewide voter registration in Florida was about fourteen-to-one Democratic in part because of the disenfranchisement of African Americans from the voter rolls since the turn of the century by discriminatory application of the state constitutions and subsequent laws. At the time, blacks had comprised the majority of Republican votes. The GOP was hollowed out in Florida and across the South because of the disenfranchisement of African Americans, policies which withstood early court challenges.<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>

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