Francis Granger (December 1, 1792 – August 31, 1868) was a Representative from New York.
Background
Granger was born in Suffield, Connecticut and pursued classical studies at and graduated from Yale College in 1811. He then moved with his father to Canandaigua, New York in 1814, where he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1816 and commenced practice.
Granger was a member of the State assembly from 1826 to 1828 and from 1830 to 1832. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Lieutenant Governor of New York in 1828, and in both 1830 and 1832 was an unsuccessful candidate of the National Republicans for Governor of New York. In 1836, he was unsuccessful as a Whig and Anti-Masonic candidate for Vice President and also unsuccessful as a Whig candidate for election to the Twenty-Fifth Congress.
He was, however, elected as a Whig to the Twenty-Fourth Congress (March 4, 1835 to March 3, 1837), as well as the Twenty-Sixth and Twenty-Seventh Congresses (he served from March 4, 1839, to March 5, 1841). Granger was appointed Postmaster General in the Cabinet of President William Henry Harrison and served from March 6 to September 18, 1841, after which he was again elected to the Twenty-Seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Greig and served from November 27, 1841, to March 3, 1843.
Granger was not a candidate for reelection in 1842, but was member of the peace convention of 1861 held in Washington, D.C. in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war. He died in Canandaigua and was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery.
