Grogan Stump

Grogan Stump was Minister for Magic from 1811 to 1819 and was very popular in the job.

Early Life
Stump was born in 1770, somewhere in Great Britain to at least one magical parent. He attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where he was sorted into Hufflepuff, from c. 1781 to 1788.

Later Life
In 1811, Stump began his duties as a Minister for Magic. Stump particularly addressed the nomenclature of beings and beasts. He decreed that a being was "any creature that has sufficient intelligence to understand the laws of the magical commnity and to bear part of the responsibility in shaping those laws", and by doing so, he settled a debate that had been going on in the wizarding world since the fourteenth century. Stump created the three divisions of the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures: Being, Beast, as well as later Spirit Divisions.

It is likely that during Stump's tenure in office there were ghost demonstrations at the Ministry of Magic, which caused Stump to create the aforementioned Spirit Division. Stump's term eventually ended in 1819.