He was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Connecticut's 4th congressional district from 1887 to 1889.

[1] He pursued common-school and academic studies, and graduated from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, in 1842, and there became a member of the Mystical Seven.

He moved to Louisiana in 1843 where he taught for a private family in West Feliciana Parish,[2] and he was admitted to the bar of Wilkinson County, Mississippi, in April 1845.

[1] Granger was elected State referee in 1893 and served until his death in North Canaan, Connecticut, October 21, 1895, where he was interred in the Lower Cemetery.

[1] This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress