Elmer Hendrickson Geran (October 24, 1875 – January 12, 1954) was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district from 1923 to 1925.

He graduated from Peddie Institute in Hightstown, New Jersey in 1895, from Princeton University in 1899, and from New York Law School in 1901.

Geran was assistant prosecutor of the pleas of Monmouth County from 1915 to 1917, and was again a member of the Assembly in 1916 and 1917 and served as minority leader.

He was ordered by the New Jersey court to sell off the effects of a bar to settle a creditor demands.

During his tenure he was associated with enforcing the federal law at the time against dissemination of motion pictures of a fight.

[10] The 1940 Federal Census showed him as manager of a sand and gravel plant and residing on Hodgner Road in Marlboro.

[14] Among its many provisions, It is the bill which requires county clerks to mail voters sample ballots before an election.