John Grenier

John Edward Grenier (August 24, 1930 – November 6, 2007) was a figure in the 1964 presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater.

[2][3] Grenier ran for the United States Senate in 1966 against John Sparkman.

[4] Grenier only won 39 percent of the vote but it was the highest percentage of the vote that anybody had won against Sparkman in Sparkman's Senate career.

Grenier also worked as a litigator for Lange Simpson Robinson and Somerville, one of the oldest and most distinguished law firms in Birmingham, Alabama, for many years.

Grenier died of lung cancer on November 6, 2007, in a hospital in Houston, Texas aged 77.