Erastus Granger
Another very important arrival of
that year [1802] was Erastus Granger,
a cousin of Gideon Granger, then Postmaster-General under President
Jefferson. He was appointed superindent of Indian affairs, and
soon
afterwards postmaster of Buffalo, and appears to have been
intrusted
with the management of the politics of this section on behalf of the
administration. He became the leader of the Republican* party on the Niagara Frontier as Dr. Chapin was
of the Federal party, and until the arrival of Peter B. Porter,
several years later, there was no one to dispute the supremacy of
either. *It will be remembered that the political organization which was then called "Republican" party afterwards named itself the "Democratic" party, which appellation it still bears. - History of the City of Buffalo and Erie
County, H. Perry Smith, editor. Syracuse: D. Mason & Co.,
1884, p. 87.
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