The Political Graveyard: Essex County, N.J.

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Essex County
New Jersey

Politicians who were born in Essex County

Essex County (no city given): James Jefferson Wilson, 1775 — William Stanbery, 1788

Belleville: Gideon V. Stivers, 1786 — Herbert W. Taylor, 1869

Bloomfield: William D. Bishop, 1827

Caldwell: Grover Cleveland, 1837

East Orange: Thomas L. Raymond, 1875 — Agnes Jones Gifford, c.1884 — Arthur E. Armitage, 1891 — Frederic R. Colie, 1895 — Albert L. Vreeland, 1901 — Worrall Frederick Mountain, 1909 — Stewart G. Pollock, 1932 — William H. Zeliff, Jr., 1936

Glen Ridge: William Hazlett Upson, 1891 — Newton Steers, 1917

Irvington: James J. Howard, 1927

Livingston: George E. DeCamp, 1843

Montclair: George C. Howard, 1892 — F. Shepard Cornell, 1899 — Charles W. Cole, 1906 — John Wills Tuthill, 1910 — Leonard C. Meeker, 1916 — James C. Cleveland, 1920 — John Lindauer, 1937 — James A. Courter, 1941 — Tom Ammiano, 1941

Newark:

	Newark, year not specified: Frederick R. Pilch — Olive Remington Goldman
	Newark, 1700-1749: William Burnet, 1730 — Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant, 1746
	Newark, 1750-1799: Isaac Tichenor, 1754 — Aaron Burr, 1756 — Josiah Ogden Hoffman, 1766 — Jacob Burnet, 1770 — David G. Burnet, 1788 — Timothy Davis, 1794
	Newark, 1800-1849: Benjamin Conley, 1815 — William A. Darling, 1817 — George H. Noonan, 1828 — William W. Betts, 1838 — James A. Connolly, 1843
	Newark, 1850-1899: James Smith, Jr., 1851 — Frederick S. Fish, 1852 — John B. Vreeland, 1852 — Jacob Haussling, 1855 — Thomas F. Molloy, c.1857 — Frederick W. Gnichtel, 1860 — John B. Jackson, 1862 — Charles Wolcott Parker, 1862 — Francis F. Patterson, Jr., 1867 — Percy H. Stewart, 1867 — Livingston Farrand, 1867 — Paul J. Moore, 1868 — J. Henry Bacheller, 1869 — William Fred Birch, 1870 — Frank H. Sommer, 1872 — Charles S. Mott, 1875 — Thomas F. McCran, 1875 — Frederick C. Breidenbach, c.1875 — Jerome T. Congleton, 1876 — Charles B. Ward, 1879 — Franklin W. Fort, 1880 — Harry F. Hawley, 1880 — Frederick R. Pilch — J. G. Bradley, 1881 — Joseph G. Wolber, 1883 — Arthur T. Vanderbilt, 1888 — Joseph V. McKee, 1889 — James Clement Dunn, 1890 — William Clark, 1891 — Gerald McLaughlin, 1893 — Vincent J. Murphy, 1893 — Edward J. Carlin, c.1895 — Arthur Walsh, 1896 — Dryden Kuser, 1897 — Anthony Giuliano, c.1897
	Newark, 1900-1949: George M. Wallhauser, 1900 — Olive Remington Goldman — J. Raymond Berry, 1901 — Dominic A. Cavicchia, 1901 — Bernard M. Shanley, 1903 — Dore Schary, 1905 — William J. Brennan, Jr., 1906 — C. Thomas Schettino, 1907 — Leo P. Carlin, 1908 — Peter W. Rodino, Jr., 1909 — Alexander J. Matturri, 1913 — Hugh J. Addonizio, 1914 — George Breitman, 1916 — Vincent Pasquale Biunno, 1916 — Frederick B. Lacey, 1920 — C. Robert Sarcone, 1925 — Harold Arnold Ackerman, 1928 — Allard Lowenstein, 1929 — Marge Roukema, 1929 — Herb Klein, 1930 — Alan B. Handler, 1931 — Donald M. Payne, 1934 — John H. Dorsey, 1937 — Sandra W. Freedman, 1943 — Dick Zimmer, 1944 — Stephen B. Richer, 1946
	Newark, 1950-1999: Ellen O. Tauscher, 1951

Nutley: Joseph W. Ward, 1891

Orange: John Condit, 1755 — Isaac Pierson, 1770 — Silas Condit, 1778 — James Girard Lindsley, 1819 — Charles A. Lighthipe, 1824 — M. Livy Agens, 1855 — Austen Colgate, 1863 — Beekman Winthrop, 1874 — Corinne R. Alsop, 1886 — William A. Wachenfeld, 1889 — John F. Simmons, 1892 — John J. Francis, 1903 — Eugene H. Nickerson, 1918 — Ronald I. Spiers, 1925 — Thomas B. Leary, 1931 — Garrett E. Brown, Jr., 1943 — Richard J. Codey, 1946

Roseland: Fillmore Condit, 1855

West Orange: Charles Edison, 1890 — Brendan T. Byrne, 1924

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