124th Delaware General Assembly

124th Delaware General Assembly
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Overview
Legislative body	Delaware General Assembly
Term	January 3, 1967 (1967-01-03) – January 7, 1969 (1969-01-07)

The 124th Delaware General Assembly was a meeting of the legislative branch of the state government, consisting of the Delaware Senate and the Delaware House of Representatives. Elections were held the first Tuesday after November 1 and terms began in Dover on the first Tuesday in January. This date was January 3, 1967, which was two weeks before the beginning of the third administrative year of Governor Charles L. Terry Jr. and Sherman W. Tribbitt as Lieutenant Governor.

Currently the distribution of seats for both houses was based on a court interpreted interpretation of the federal 1960 census. It resulted in a large shift in membership numbers to the New Castle County area and ruling that the election districts would abandonment of county lines for their boundaries, but could design whatever district boundaries that would accomplish such population equals. Subsequent census were adjusted such boundaries to continue such adjectives, the next being in 1972.

In the 124th Delaware General Assembly session the Senate had a Democratic majority and the House had a Republican majority.

Leadership

Senate

• Calvin R. McCullough, New Castle County, Democratic

House of Representatives

• George C. Hering III, New Castle County, Republican

Members

Senate

About half the State Senators were elected every two years for a four-year term, except the decade district redesign year, when all served two years. They were designed for equal populations from all districts and its accomplishment occasionally included some territory from two counties.

New Castle County 1. Russell D. F. Dineen 2. Herman M. Holloway Sr. 3. George F. Schlor 4. Ralph Keenan 5. Louise Conner 6. John C. Kinahan

New Castle County 7. Reynolds du Pont 8. Margaret R. Manning 9. Anthony C. Moore 10. Robert I. Carney 11. Calvin R. McCullough 12. J. Donald Isaacs

Kent County 13. Allen J. Cook 14. Andrew Foltz 15. George A. Robbins Sussex County 16. Frank R. Grier 17. Curtis W. Steen 18. Eugene Bookhammer

House of Representatives

All the State Representatives were elected every two years for a two-year term. They were designed for equal populations from all districts and its accomplishment occasionally included some territory from two counties.

New Castle County 1. Fred Brown 2. Raymond T. Evans 3. Oliver S. Fonville 4. Reese Hammond 5. Paul E. Shockley 6. Michael N. Castle 7. John J. McMahon 8. George C. Hering III 9. T. Lee Bartleson 10. Herbert A. Lesher 11. Clarice U. Heckert 12. David S. Benson

New Castle County 13. W. Laird Stabler 14. Everette Hale 15. Mario Pagano 16. William F. Hart 17. Anthony J. Cicione 18. William L. Frederick 19. Mary E. Gooding 20. Melvin A. Slawik 21. John P. Ferguson 22. Joseph T. Cashman 23. Carlton Blendt Jr. 24. Joseph R. Murphy Jr.

Kent County 25. Robert W. Riddagh 26. Jacob W. Zimmerman 27. Lorin B. Sebrell 28. Robert L. Pleasanton 29. G. Robert Quillen Sussex County 30. Lewis B. Harrington 31. Norman A. Eskridge 32. William H. Phillips 33. George E. Gray 34. Robert M. Dodge 35. Louis W. Burton

References

• Hoffecker, Carol E. (2004). Democracy in Delaware. Wilmington, Delaware: Cedar Tree Books. ISBN 1-892142-23-6.
• Martin, Roger A. (1995). Memoirs of the Senate. Newark, Delaware: Roger A. Martin.

Places with more information

• Delaware Historical Society; website; 505 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19801; (302) 655-7161.
• University of Delaware; Library website; 181 South College Avenue, Newark, Delaware 19717; (302) 831-2965.