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unusual facts about G.D. Crain, Jr.



Gertrude Crain

Gertrude Ramsay Crain (9 March 1911 – July 20, 1996) was an American publishing executive who served as chair of Crain Communications, Inc., a company her husband, G.D. Crain, Jr., founded in 1916.

John L. Crain

In 1992 Crain received the Southeastern President's Award for Excellence in Research; by 2009, on being named president, he had authored 63 refereed journal articles.

Rudolph Kleberg

Kleberg was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William H. Crain.

William C. Crain

In 1826, he married Perses Narina Tunnicliff, daughter of William Tunnicliff, and granddaughter of the Count George Ernst August von Ranzau, an officer on the staff of the Friedrich Adolf Riedesel, and author of the interesting Journal of Burgoyne's Expedition contained in the archives of the general staff at Berlin.

William H. Crain

He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings during the Fifty-third Congress.

Crain was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth and to the five succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1885, until his death in Washington, D.C., February 10, 1896.


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