[2] The son of John Cramm and Margaret King,[1] he was born in Small Point and was educated in nearby Salem, at the Tilton Seminary in New Hampshire and at the Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.
After Richard Squires stepped down as leader, Cramm supported William Warren.
[2] However, after the Hollis Walker Report was released which recommended criminal charges against Squires,[3] he joined the opposition and moved the motion of no confidence which brought down Warren's administration.
In 1949, he ran unsuccessfully as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the Canadian federal riding of Trinity—Conception.
[2] In 1921, Cramm published a book called The First Five Hundred, about the Royal Newfoundland Regiment during World War I.