Maurice E. Post ( 1881 – 1958 ) was a Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives . He was a farmer in Rockford and represented Kent County in the legislature from 1933 until 1948 ; he ran for the Michigan State Senate in 1948 , but did not survive the primary . Post was an alternate delegate to the 1940 Republican National Convention . He was a survivor of the Kerns Hotel fire in Lansing of December 11 , 1934
1940 Republican National Convention
1940 Republican National Convention
Maurice E. Post