Alexander Grant (Massachusetts politician)

Alexander Grant
6th Mayor of Chicopee, Massachusetts
In office January 1896 – January 1897
Preceded by	Andrew Gale
Succeeded by	George D. Eldridge
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 5th Hampden District[1]
Majority	35 (1893)[1]
Member of the Chicopee, Massachusetts Board of Aldermen Ward 2[1]
In office 1860–1861
Personal details
Born	September 26, 1853[1] Lawrence, Massachusetts[1]
Died	1935 Chicopee, Massachusetts
Political party	Republican 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

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

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

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

1. 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