Biography

Abrams was born on January 20, 1868. His father, W. J. Abrams

W. J. Abrams

W. J. Abrams was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, the Wisconsin State Senate and was Mayor of Green Bay, Wisconsin.-Biography:Abrams was born William Abrams on March 19, 1829 in Cambridge, New York. He would study theology in Williamstown, Massachusetts, but did not finish his studies due...

, was also Mayor of Green Bay, as well as a member of the Wisconsin State Senate

Wisconsin State Senate

The Wisconsin Senate, the powers of which are modeled after those of the U.S. Senate, is the upper house of the Wisconsin State Legislature, smaller than the Wisconsin State Assembly...

 and Wisconsin State Assembly

Wisconsin State Assembly

The Wisconsin State Assembly is the lower house of the Wisconsin Legislature. Together with the smaller Wisconsin Senate, the two constitute the legislative branch of the U.S. state of Wisconsin....

. Abrams would marry Ottilia Rhode. They had one daughter. Abrams passed away from complications due to problems with his heart

Heart

The heart is a myogenic muscular organ found in all animals with a circulatory system , that is responsible for pumping blood throughout the blood vessels by repeated, rhythmic contractions...

 and Bright's disease

Bright's disease

Bright's disease is a historical classification of kidney diseases that would be described in modern medicine as acute or chronic nephritis. The term is no longer used, as diseases are now classified according to their more fully understood causes....

 on September 13, 1921. He is buried in Allouez, Wisconsin

Allouez, Wisconsin

Allouez is a village in Brown County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2000 census, the village population was 15,443. It is part of the Green Bay Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...

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Career

Abrams was elected to the Green Bay City Council in 1902. In 1904, he was selected to be President of the City Council during the tenure of Mayor Robert E. Minahan

Robert E. Minahan

Robert E. Minahan was Mayor of Green Bay, Wisconsin.Minahan was born on January 27, 1858 in Howard, New York to Irish immigrants. He moved with his family to Calumet County, Wisconsin in 1860. Minahan graduated from the Oshkosh Normal School, Rush Medical College and the University of Michigan Law...

. Abrams became Mayor in 1908 and served in that role until 1916. In 1918, he became Vice Mayor, serving under Elmer Hall

Elmer Hall

Elmer Stephen Hall was a politician from the U.S. state of Wisconsin. He served as Brown County Clerk, Green Bay's 26th Mayor, Wisconsin's twenty-first Secretary of State, Conservation Commissioner and District 2 Wisconsin State Senate serving one term. He was a Republican.He died May 22,...

. Hall resigned in January 1921 to take office as Secretary of State of Wisconsin

Secretary of State of Wisconsin

The Secretary of State of Wisconsin is an officer of the executive branch of the government of the U.S. state of Wisconsin, and the second in the order of succession of the Governor of Wisconsin, behind the Lieutenant Governor....

, at which time Abrams once again became Green Bay's chief executive. He remained so until the election of Wenzel Wiesner

Wenzel Wiesner

-Biography:Wiesner was born on April 18, 1877 in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin. He married Emma Drabonzel in 1899. They would have two children. Wiesner and his family moved to Green Bay in 1911. He passed away in 1957.-Career:...

in April.