Morris Kramer

Morris Kramer was a theater booking agent from New York City's Lower East Side. In 1944, the Democratic Party recruited him to challenge Flora Hamburger for the neighborhood's seat in the US House of Representatives.

Kramer had received 4F status from the draft board because of a hernia. This was seen as a political liability, though Hamburger--mostly--did not intend to exploit it. Instead, she campaigned against him on the grounds that a freshman Congressman would never be able to get the pork needed to rebuild the bomb damage caused by the Confederates in the Second Great War.