Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-01-05


Essex; Brown, Of Monmouth; Strimple, of
Salem, aud Childs, OF Somerset. The
second year Senators are Homer, Of Bur
lington; Cresse, Of Cape May; Martens, Of
Hudson; Jackson, Of Middlesex, and Price,
OF Sussex
There are fifteen former Assembymen
and three former Speakers in the Senate
The latter are Messrs- Cross, Bradley and
Homer. Senator Wakelee served as Presi-
dent last year. One Senator, Mr.. Ferrell,
served term in Congress twenty years
ago Senator Minturn is the only Senator
who has not had legislative experience.
cepting Messrs. Wakelee and Martens, who
were born in New York Lee, in PhiIadel-
phia Bradley, ia Maryland aud Barber in
PENNSYLVANIA There is not a foreigner in
the OF OF the ,Jersevmen two were born
in Monmouth two il Morris, and one each
in Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Essex,
Gloucester, Hudson, Somerset and Sussex.
The average aye Of the Senator'S il forty
four years The oldest are Messrs Cross
and Ferrell, who are over sixty. The
youngest Senator i Mr. Horner, Of Bur-
lngton, who is thirty-two; then Mr.. Hill
cry, Of Morris, thifty-three; Mr.. Wakelee,
of Bergen. thirty-fye; Mr.. Bachelor Of
Essex, thirty six; Mr.. Cresse, Of Cane May
thirty seven, and Messrs. Martens, Of Hun
terdon, Jackson, Of Middlesex, and Mckee,
of Passaie, each thirty-eight. There are
seven lawyers, two physician, two real
estate dealers aud two bankers.
There is one civil engineer, contractor
restaurant proprietor, a fish dealer and an
agent, The Senate contains fourteen re-
pubicans and seven democrat, just the
same as last year.
Owing to the death Of Mr. Embree, Of
Union county, there is one vacancy in the
Assembly this year. This vacancy will not
be filed, because there is no necessity for
the holding Of a special election, the other
members from that county, Messrs- Cogne
ana FislsnaD, 5ssng ticient to look after
the interests OF the constituency. A sim
liar vacancy occurred in Bergen in 1900,
when John T. c Graves died. but it was
not filed, and Mr. Wakelee, then mem
Der, took care of the interests of that county.
/ 10 1883 vacancy was caused IN Hudson
by the death Of Z Frank Short, and it was
filled by the election of Mr.. Francois But
this was under the old district method Of
election and did nos incnr much expense
and anyhow the Democrats, who had a
small majority in the House, needed the
vote of Mr. Francois. The only other sim
liar case in sixty years was in 1860, when
Joseph Harker died in Gloucester and at a
special election Joseph H, Duffield was
chosen for the vacancy.
There are only two foreign born Assem-
bIymen, Mr. Gallagher, Of England, now
Of Essex, and Mr. Matthews, of Germany,
now of Hudson. Seven are natives Of New
York, two Of Wisconsin, and one each of
Alabama. Pennsylvania, Delaware and
Massachusetts There are forty-four ma
tiyes of New Jersey, divided as TO lows -
Hudson, seven, Essex, six; Burlington
Mercer, Middlesex and Passaie, three each
Cumberland, Hunterdon, Ocean, Mon
mouth. Morris and Somerset two each. and
Atlantic, Bergen, Camden, Cape May, Sa-
lem, Sussex and Warren, one each The
oldest Assemblyman is MIR. Gibbs, OF Cam
den, who is slxty-six: then Colonel Wild
tloR Of Waffen ,vlis is just one month
Younger than MI Gibbs; and next Mr..
Willever, OF Huntridon who Is sixty-two
Mr. B3ac aef vt Hudson, is the youngest
member, being only tNents-two. He aud
Colonel Wildf,ck were born on the same
date, November Ia, but there is just a diff
, ference If forty four years in tneir ages
There are eight members oyer fifty and nine
under thirty rhe youngest are Boucher,
%; Alexander "a; Ernst %; Murphy, 26;
J Hamill 25; Gallery, 2S; Lehlbach, 20; Avis,
30 and Lang %. The average age Is
thirty-nine years.
there are twenty-six lawyers in the As
sembly, Hudson having seven and Essex
four There are only three farmers. Then
there are six merchants, three real estate
dealers, two physicians, two plumbers, and
enc each, as follows Miller, editor, secre-
tary, mechanic, banker, liquor dealer, ship
per, snip FlgSeT; uaiiy lhdi sssacsiian, ~
surance agent, fisherman, school teacher,
searcher Of titles, electrician, manufacturer
and manager.
-Four members are in their fourth year of
: seryiee-Messrs. Ayis, Miller Elvins and
Hammill The third year men are Messrs
Shedaker, Scovel, Gibbs. Buck, Lehlbach,
Colby, Duff, Loveridge, Willever, Dalrym-
pie and Wildrick. Mr. Scovel served two
years previously, in 1896 aud 1897. There
! are twenty-five second years members and
nineteen 10 their first terms.
The house will contain forty-fiye repuh-
, licans and fourteen democrats The repub-
lican majority on joint ballot is thirty
4 eight. The largest plurality for member
, ship in the House Of Assembly was Assem-
bly, was "a, $50, which was given to MT.
I. Taylor, Of Essex, and Mr.. Pennington was
/ next, with "a, 357 The lowest plurality
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