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Alexander Grant (Massachusetts politician)

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Alexander Grant
6th Mayor of
Chicopee, Massachusetts
In office
January 1896 – January 1897
Preceded byAndrew Gale
Succeeded byGeorge D. Eldridge
Member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives
5th Hampden District[1]
Majority35 (1893)[1]
Member of the Chicopee, Massachusetts
Board of Aldermen
Ward 2[1]
In office
1860–1861
Personal details
BornSeptember 26, 1853[1]
Lawrence, Massachusetts[1]
Died1935
Chicopee, Massachusetts
Political partyRepublican Party[1]

Alexander Grant (1853–1935) was a Massachusetts machinist and politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives[1] and as the sixth mayor of Chicopee, Massachusetts.[2]

Personal life

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Grant was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts on September 26, 1853.[1] Grant was educated in the Lowell, Massachusetts public schools.[1] In 1879 in Chicopee, he married Annie M. Vanzandt (1854–1934), original from Rome, New York. His wife preceded him in death by a few months.

Business career

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Grant went to work in the cotton mills of Lowell while he was still young, and aside from two and a half years working in a Lowell machine shop, he spent his business career in the cotton business.[1] In March 1878 Grant moved to Chicopee[1] where he went to work for the Dwight Manufacturing Company.[1]

Political career

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Grant was elected to represent Ward 2 on the Chicopee Board of Aldermen, and in 1895 he was elected to[1] represent the Fifth Hampden District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.[1]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Bridgman, Arthur Milnor (1894), A Souvenir of Massachusetts Legislators 1894, Vol. III, Brockton, Massachusetts: A. M. Bridgman, p. 145
  2. ^ Copeland, Alfred Minott (1902), "Our County and Its People": A History of Hampden County Massachusetts, Volume Three, The Century Memorial Publishing Company, p. 493
Political offices
Preceded by
Andrew Gale
6th Mayor of Chicopee, Massachusetts
January 1896–January 1897
Succeeded by
George D. Eldridge