Lew W. Cramer

Lew W. Cramer (born 1949) is an American businessman and former government official.

Cramer was born in San Francisco, California. He was partly raised in Okinawa, where his father was stationed with the US military. He began his undergraduate career at Stanford University. He is a Latter-day Saint, and the bishop of his LDS ward was Henry B. Eyring who was influential in convincing him to serve an LDS mission. He served in the Germany Berlin Mission. After his mission he studied at Brigham Young University completing his undergraduate work and also attending law school there. which at the time had a staff of 1,400 in 68 US and 125 foreign offices. He was closely involved with trade negotiations with Eastern Bloc countries in the period of 1988-1990.