The New Jersey Senate is the upper house of the New Jersey Legislature, the bicameral state legislature of the State of New Jersey. The Senate comprises 40 elected members from 40 single-member senatorial districts in the state.
The Senate was introduced in the 1844 Constitution of New Jersey, replacing the New Jersey Legislative Council. From 1844 until 1965 (following the United States Supreme Court's Reynolds v. Sims decision), each county was an electoral district electing one senator, as they had under the 1776 Constitution. From 1965 to 1973, Senate districts were apportioned at the county level, but with adjustments for disparate populations. Since 1973, the legislature has been apportioned into districts to reflect the principle of "one person, one vote" as nearly as possible, with little regard for county boundaries.
Under the 1844 Constitution the term of office was three years, which was changed to four years with the 1947 Constitution. Since 1968 the Senate has consisted of 40 senators, apportioned among legislative districts drawn at the town level, who are elected in a "2-4-4" cycle.
1845 to 1965
editSession | Year | Atlantic | Bergen | Burlington | Camden | Cape May | Cumberland | Essex | Gloucester | Hudson | Hunterdon | Mercer | Middlesex | Monmouth | Morris | Ocean | Passaic | Salem | Somerset | Sussex | Union | Warren |
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69th[1] | 1845 | Joel Adams | Richard R. Paulison | James S. Hulme | Richard W. Howell | Reuben Willets | Enoch H. More | Joseph S. Dodd | John C. Smallwood | Richard Outwater | Alexander Wurts | Charles S. Olden | David Crowell | Thomas E. Combs | John B. Johnes | - | Cornelius G. Garrison | William J. Shinn | George H. Brown | Benjamin Hamilton | - | Charles J. Ihrir |
70th[2] | 1846 | Joseph C. Stafford | Stephen R. Grover | George F. Fort | Benjamin Acton Jr. | William H. Leupp | Jeremy Mackey | |||||||||||||||
71st | 1847 | Thomas H. Richards | James L. Smith | Isaac G. Farlee | Adam Lee | Nathan Smith | Martin J. Ryerson | |||||||||||||||
72nd[3] | 1848 | Lewis M. Walker | Isaac I. Haring | Stephen A. Garrison | John Tonnele | Ephraim Marsh | ||||||||||||||||
73rd[4] | 1849 | John Gill | Asa Whitehead | Charles Reeves | John A. Morford | John Summerill Jr. | John W. Craig | George W. Taylor | ||||||||||||||
74th | 1850 | John Van Brunt | Joseph Satterthwaite | Enoch Edmunds | John Cassedy | John Manners | Edward Y. Rogers | Silas D. Canfield | Joseph Greer | |||||||||||||
75th | 1851 | Joseph E. Potts | Reuben Fithian | Abraham O. Zabriskie | William C. Alexander | John A. Bleecker | Samuel Birdsall | |||||||||||||||
76th | 1852 | Abraham Hopper | Thomas W. Mulford | Stephen Congar | John Burk | Wiliam D. Davis | Allen Wallace | Moses Craig | Charles Sitgreaves | |||||||||||||
77th | 1853 | Joseph W. Allen | Joshua Swain Jr. | Alexander V. Bonnell | Ralph C. Stults | Isaac Bonnell | ||||||||||||||||
78th | 1854 | David B. Somers | Daniel D. Depew | Lewis Howell | Moses B. Bramhall | Alexander Robertson | James Cowperthwaite | Thomas D. Hoxsey | ||||||||||||||
79th | 1855 | John K. Roberts | George R. Chetwood | Joseph Franklin | Robert S. Laird | Charles P. Smith | Samuel K. Martin | William Rea | ||||||||||||||
80th | 1856 | Jesse H. Diverty | John C. Rafferty | Henry V. Speer | Jetur R. Riggs | Zachariah H. Price | ||||||||||||||||
81st | 1857 | Enoch Cordery | Thomas H. Herring | John L. Sharp | Cornelius V. Clickener | Robert C. Hutchinson | Andrew B. Cobb | William F. Brown | ||||||||||||||
82nd | 1858 | Charles L.C. Gifford | Jeptha Abbott | William H. Hendrickson | Joseph K. Riley | James Campbell | John R. Ayres | Philip Mowry | ||||||||||||||
83rd | 1859 | Thomas L. Norcross | Downs Edmunds | Edmund Perry | Abraham Everett | Benjamin Buckley | Edward C. Moore | |||||||||||||||
84th | 1860 | Thomas E. Morris | Ralph S. Demarest | Nathaniel Stratton | Samuel Wescott | Jonathan Cook | Daniel Budd | |||||||||||||||
85th | 1861 | William P. Tatem | James M. Quinby | John Pierson | Anthony Reckless | Emmor Reeve | Rynier H. Veghte | Joseph T. Crowell | James K. Swayze | |||||||||||||
86th | 1862 | Joseph W. Pharo | Jonathan F. Leaming | Theodore Fitz Randolph | John Blane | Amos Robins | Peter Smith | |||||||||||||||
87th | 1863 | Samuel Stille | Daniel Holsman | William Garwood | Providence Ludlam | Edward W. Scudder | Lyman A. Chandler | George D. Horner | ||||||||||||||
88th | 1864 | James M. Scovel | John G. Trusdell | Joseph L. Reeves | Henry S. Little | Richard M. Acton | Joshua Doughty | James Jenkins | Henry R. Kennedy | |||||||||||||
89th | 1865 | George M. Wright | Wilmon W. Ware | Alexander Wurts | Joseph S. Martin | |||||||||||||||||
90th | 1866 | David S. Blackman | John Y. Dater | Charles H. Winfield | Augustus G. Richey | George T. Cobb | Philip H. Grier | |||||||||||||||
91st | 1867 | Edward Bettle | James L. Hays | Woodward Warrick | Samuel Plummer | John H. Anderson | Amos Clark | Abraham Wildrick | ||||||||||||||
92nd | 1868 | Job H. Gaskill | Leaming M. Rice | Joseph G. Bowne | John Hopper | Richard E. Edsall | ||||||||||||||||
93rd | 1869 | Jesse Adams | James J. Brinkerhoff | James H. Nixon | Noah D. Taylor | John Woolverton | John Torrey Jr. | |||||||||||||||
94th | 1870 | John W. Taylor | Samuel Hopkins | John C. Belden | Calvin Corle | James T. Wiley | Edward H. Bird | |||||||||||||||
95th | 1871 | Henry J. Irick | Thomas Beesley | David H. Banghart | Levi D. Jarrard | Columbus Beach | Henry A. Williams | |||||||||||||||
96th | 1872[5] | William Moore | Cornelius Lydecker | Caleb Henry Sheppard | John R. McPherson | Charles Hewitt | William H. Conover Jr. | Augustus W. Cutler | John G. W. Havens | |||||||||||||
97th | 1873[6] | William J. Sewell | William H. Hendrickson | Isaac Newkirk | Elisha B. Wood | J. Henry Stone | Joseph B. Cornish | |||||||||||||||
98th | 1874[7] | Barton F. Thorn | Richard S. Leaming | Frederic A. Potts | John Hopper | Samuel T. Smith | ||||||||||||||||
99th | 1875[8] | Hosea F. Madden | George Dayton | J. Howard Willets | Leon Abbett | John H. Blackwell | John Hill | John S. Schultze | ||||||||||||||
100th | 1876[9] | William H. Kirk | Thomas B. Mathers | Charles S. Plummer | Charles B. Moore | William J. Magie | William Silverthorn | |||||||||||||||
101st | 1877 | Caleb G. Ridgway | Jonathan F. Leaming | James N. Pidcock | George C. Ludlow | Garret Hobart | Francis M. Ward | |||||||||||||||
102nd | 1878 | John J. Gardner | Cornelius S. Cooper | George S. Whiticar | Rudolph F. Rabe | Crowell Marsh | Augustus C. Canfield | Ephraim P. Emson | ||||||||||||||
103rd | 1879[10] | William H. Francis | John F. Bodine | George C. Beekman | Quinton Keasbey | John G. Schenck | Benjamin A. Vail | Peter Cramer | ||||||||||||||
104th | 1880[11] | William Budd Deacon | Waters B. Miller | Eli Bosenbury | Isaac L. Martin | Thomas Lawrence | ||||||||||||||||
105th | 1881[12] | Isaac Wortendyke | Isaac T. Nichols | Elijah T. Paxton | John Taylor | James C. Youngblood | Abraham C. B. Havens | |||||||||||||||
106th | 1882[13] | Albert Merritt | William Stainsby | Thomas M. Ferrell | John S. Applegate | George Hires | Eugene S. Doughty | George H. Beatty | ||||||||||||||
107th | 1883[14] | Hezekiah B. Smith | John Carpenter Jr. | Abraham Schenck | John W. Griggs | Lewis Cochran | ||||||||||||||||
108th | 1884[15] | Ezra Miller | Stacy L. Pancoast | William Brinkerhoff | George O. Vanderbilt | George T. Cranmer | Lewis A. Thompson | |||||||||||||||
109th | 1885[16] | Richard N. Herring | Frederick Fish | Thomas G. Chattle | Wyatt W. Miller | Robert L. Livingston | James E. Moon | |||||||||||||||
110th | 1886[17] | John W. Bogert | William H. Carter | Joseph H. Hanes | George H. Large | Daniel C. Chase | John A. McBride | |||||||||||||||
111th | 1887 | Philip P. Baker | William D. Edwards | John D. Rue | George T. Werts | |||||||||||||||||
112th | 1888[18] | George Pfeiffer Jr. | Augustus F. R. Martin | Joseph B. Roe | Henry M. Nevius | William Newell | James L. Miller | Martin Wyckoff | ||||||||||||||
113th | 1889 | Walter S. Leaming | Moses K. Everitt | Robert Adrian | John Mallon | Peter D. Smith | ||||||||||||||||
114th | 1890 | Henry D. Winton | Seaman R. Fowler | Edward F. McDonald | ||||||||||||||||||
William S. Stuhr[a] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
115th | 1891 | Maurice A. Rogers | Michael T. Barrett | George H. Barker | Edward F. McDonald | Thomas S. R. Brown | James Butcher | William J. Keys | Frederick C. Marsh | Johnston Cornish | ||||||||||||
116th | 1892 | Mitchell B. Perkins | Lemuel E. Miller | Robert S. Hudspeth | William H. Martin | John Hinchcliffe | John McMickle | |||||||||||||||
117th | 1893 | Samuel D. Hoffman | Edward C. Stokes | William D. Daly | William H. Skirm | Henry S. Terhune | Elias C. Drake | George G. Smith | ||||||||||||||
118th | 1894[19] | George W. Ketcham | Daniel J. Packer | James A. Bradley | John C. Ward | Lewis A. Thompson | Foster M. Voorhees | Christopher F. Staates | ||||||||||||||
119th | 1895 | William C. Parry | Edmund L. Ross | Richard S. Kuhl | Charles B. Herbert | Robert Williams | Jacob Gould | |||||||||||||||
120th | 1896 | William M. Johnson | John B. Vreeland | Robert B. Engle | ||||||||||||||||||
121st | 1897 | Herbert W. Johnson | Solomon H. Stanger | C. Asa Francis | Richard C. Miller | Charles A. Reed | Isaac Barber | |||||||||||||||
122nd | 1898 | Howard E. Packer | Robert E. Hand | John R. Foster | James H. Van Cleef | Christian Braun | Lewis J. Martin | |||||||||||||||
123rd | 1899[20] | Lewis Evans | Allan L. McDermott | Elijah C. Hutchinson | Mahlon Pitney | George G. Smith | Joseph Cross | |||||||||||||||
124th | 1900 | Thomas McCarter | Johnston Cornish | |||||||||||||||||||
125th | 1901 | Edmund W. Wakelee | Nathan Haines | Robert S. Hudspeth | William C. Gebhardt | Theodore Strong | Wood McKee | |||||||||||||||
126th | 1902 | Edward S. Lee | Bloomfield Minch | Jacob W. Welsh | George L. Shinn | |||||||||||||||||
127th | 1903 | William J. Bradley | ||||||||||||||||||||
128th | 1904 | J. Henry Bacheller | Thomas M. Ferrell | Oliver Huff Brown | James Strimple | Samuel S. Childs | Lewis J. Martin | Isaac Barber | ||||||||||||||
129th | 1905 | John G. Horner | Lewis M. Cresse | James F. Minturn | George F. Martens Jr. | Barton B. Hutchinson | William H.C. Jackson | Thomas J. Hillery | Jacob C. Price | |||||||||||||
130th | 1906 | Everett Colby | John Boyd Avis | William Plummer Jr. | Joseph Frelinghuysen | Ernest R. Ackerman | Johnston Cornish | |||||||||||||||
131st | 1907 | Samuel K. Robbins | Robert E. Hand | William C. Gebhardt | George S. Silzer | John Hinchcliffe | ||||||||||||||||
132nd | 1908 | Edward A. Wilson | James F. Fielder | Harry D. Leavitt | William J. Harrison | |||||||||||||||||
133rd | 1909 | Harry V. Osborne | George W. F. Gaunt | |||||||||||||||||||
134th | 1910 | Griffith W. Lewis | Edward K. Mills | Thomas A. Mathis | John D. Prince | |||||||||||||||||
135th | 1911 | Walter E. Edge | James A. C. Johnson | Isaac T. Nichols | Richard Fitzherbert | George C. Low | ||||||||||||||||
136th | 1912 | Blanchard H. White | William T. Read | Harry C. Wheaton | Austen Colgate | George F. Martens Jr. | William E. Ramsay | John W. Slocum | Peter J. McGinnis | J. Warren Davis | William W. Smalley | Samuel Tilden Munson | Carlton B. Pierce | Thomas Barber | ||||||||
137th | 1913 | |||||||||||||||||||||
138th | 1914 | Charles Hennessy | John A. Ackley | Charles M. Egan | Barton B. Hutchinson | Charles A. Rathbun | Thomas A. Mathis | Isaac S. Smick | ||||||||||||||
139th | 1915 | Henry E. Ackerson Jr. | Collins B. Allen | |||||||||||||||||||
140th | 1916 | Harold B. Wells | Lewis T. Stevens | William E. Florance | Thomas F. McCran | |||||||||||||||||
141st | 1917 | Emerson L. Richards | William B. Mackay Jr. | John B. Kates | J. Hampton Fithian | Edmund Burke Osborne | Cornelius McGlennon | James Hammond | Harry W. Mutchler | David G. Conrad | Vacant | |||||||||||
142nd | 1918 | Joshua C. Haines | Charles C. Pilgrim | Edward L. Sturgess | Clarence Case | William Runyon | ||||||||||||||||
143rd | 1919 | Vacant | William H. Bright | Edward I. Edwards | Thomas Brown | Arthur Whitney | Albin Smith | Henry T. Kays | ||||||||||||||
144th | 1920 | Charles D. White | Blanchard H. White | Firman M. Reeves | Alexander Simpson | S. Roy Heath | William A. Stevens | Harry T. Hagaman | ||||||||||||||
145th | 1921 | Joseph F. Wallworth | William H. Parry | |||||||||||||||||||
146th | 1922 | Emmor Roberts | Horace M. Fooder | David H. Agans | Morgan F. Larson | |||||||||||||||||
147th | 1923 | Emerson L. Richards | William H. Blackwell | Thomas A. Mathis | Arthur N. Pierson | |||||||||||||||||
148th | 1924 | Albert S. Woodruff | J. Henry Harrison | Francis B. Davis | J. Gilbert Borton | Robert B. Groat | ||||||||||||||||
149th | 1925 | Henry A. Williams | Blase Cole | |||||||||||||||||||
150th | 1926 | A. Crozer Reeves | Frank D. Abell | |||||||||||||||||||
151st | 1927 | Joseph Forsyth | Joseph G. Wolber | William S. Stiles | Henry O. Carhart | |||||||||||||||||
152nd | 1928 | Clifford R. Powell | Charles C. Read | Albert R. McAllister | Horace G. Prall | Roy Y. Yates | ||||||||||||||||
153rd | 1929 | Ralph W. Chandless | Vacant | Vacant | ||||||||||||||||||
154th | 1930 | Roy R. Stewart | Arthur A. Quinn | E. Donald Sterner | S. Rusling Leap | John Dryden Kuser | Theodore B. Dawes | |||||||||||||||
155th | 1931 | Vacant | Edward P. Stout | |||||||||||||||||||
156th | 1932 | William H. J. Ely | LeRoy W. Loder | William H. Albright | David Young Jr. | Wilfred Jayne | Vacant | |||||||||||||||
157th | 1933 | Albert S. Woodruff | Frank Durand | Percy Camp | John C. Barbour | Charles Loizeaux | Thomas Barber | |||||||||||||||
158th | 1934 | Robert C. Hendrickson | John E. Toolan | Vacant | ||||||||||||||||||
159th | 1935 | William H. Smathers | Winant Van Winkle | Linwood W. Erickson | Elmer King | |||||||||||||||||
160th | 1936 | Albert E. Burling | Lester H. Clee | D. Stewart Craven | James I. Bowers | Theodore B. Dawes | ||||||||||||||||
161st | 1937 | I. Grant Scott | Arthur F. Foran | Crawford Jamieson | Walter H. Gardner | William A. Dolan | ||||||||||||||||
162nd | 1938 | Thomas Taggart | George H. Stanger | Frank S. Kelley | James K. Allardice | |||||||||||||||||
163rd | 1939 | Alfred Driscoll | Homer C. Zink | Haydn Proctor | John M. Summerill Jr. | Harry Runyon | ||||||||||||||||
164th | 1940 | Howard Eastwood | Oscar R. Wilensky | Harry H. Hollinshed | ||||||||||||||||||
165th | 1941 | Frank S. Farley | Lloyd L. Schroeder | Edward J. O'Mara | Harold A. Pierson | W. Steelman Mathis | ||||||||||||||||
167th | 1942 | Bruce A. Wallace | Roy V. Wright | Wesley Lance | C. Wesley Armstrong Jr. | Thomas A. Mathis | H. Rivington Pyne | Herbert J. Pascoe | ||||||||||||||
168th | 1943 | John G. Sholl | Charles K. Barton | Alfred B. Littell | ||||||||||||||||||
169th | 1944 | David Van Alstyne | Samuel L. Bodine | |||||||||||||||||||
170th | 1945 | Arthur W. Lewis | John L. Morrissey | |||||||||||||||||||
171st | 1946 | Harold W. Hannold | ||||||||||||||||||||
172nd | 1947 | Elmer Wene | David Young III | W. Steelman Mathis | ||||||||||||||||||
173rd | 1948 | James M. Davis Jr. | Bruce A. Wallace | Anthony Cafiero | Alfred C. Clapp | J. Stanley Herbert | Freas Hess | Kenneth Hand | Robert Meyner | |||||||||||||
174th | 1949 | Bernard W. Vogel | Vincent E. Hull | |||||||||||||||||||
175th | 1950 | W. Howard Sharp | J. Richard Kafes | |||||||||||||||||||
176th | 1951 | |||||||||||||||||||||
177th | 1952 | Albert McCay | Richard R. Stout | Malcolm Forbes | Wayne Dumont | |||||||||||||||||
178th | 1953 | Frank W. Shershin | ||||||||||||||||||||
179th | 1954 | Walter H. Jones | Mark Anton | James F. Murray Jr. | Wesley Lance | Sido Ridolfi | Thomas Hillery | George B. Harper | ||||||||||||||
180th | 1955 | |||||||||||||||||||||
181st | 1956 | Joseph Cowgill | Charles Sandman | Donal C. Fox | John A. Lynch | Robert C. Crane | ||||||||||||||||
182nd | 1957 | |||||||||||||||||||||
183rd | 1958 | William F. Kelly Jr. | Anthony J. Grossi | John A. Waddington | William Ozzard | |||||||||||||||||
184th | 1959 | Vacant | ||||||||||||||||||||
185th | 1960 | Henry S. Haines | Robert H. Weber | Thomas F. Connery Jr. | ||||||||||||||||||
186th | 1961 | |||||||||||||||||||||
187th | 1962 | Pierce Deamer | Raymond Bowkley | |||||||||||||||||||
188th | 1963 | Nelson Stamler | ||||||||||||||||||||
189th | 1964 | Edwin B. Forsythe | Frederick J. Scholz | C. Robert Sarcone | John E. Hunt | |||||||||||||||||
190th | 1965 | Milton Woolfenden Jr. |
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