98th_Delaware_General_Assembly

98th Delaware General Assembly

98th Delaware General Assembly

American legislative session


The 98th 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 5, 1915, which was two weeks before the beginning of the third administrative year of Governor Charles R. Miller and Colen Ferguson as Lieutenant Governor.

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Currently the distribution of the Senate Assembly seats was made to seven senators for New Castle County and for five senators to each Kent and Sussex counties. Likewise the current distribution of the House Assembly seats was made to fifteen representatives for New Castle County and for ten representatives each to Kent and Sussex counties. The actual population changes of the county did not directly affect the number of senators or representatives at this time.

In the 98th Delaware General Assembly session both chambers had a Republican majority.

Leadership

Senate

House of Representatives

  • Charles H. Grantland, New Castle County, Republican

Members

Senate

About half of the State Senators were elected every two years for a four-year term. They were from a district in a specific county, with the number of districts determined by the state constitution, not the size of the population.

New Castle County
  • 1. James B. Hickman
  • 2. Thomas F. Gormley
  • 3. Thomas S. Webb
  • 4. John M. Walker
  • 5. Harvey Hoffecker
  • 6. Zachary T. Harris
  • 7. Edward H. Hart
Kent County
  • 1. Charles M. Wharton
  • 2. Henry Williams
  • 3. John A. Barnard
  • 4. Edward B. Carter
  • 5. Joseph Frazier
Sussex County
  • 1. Oliver A. Newton
  • 2. Samuel J. Furniss
  • 3. Charles W. Mitchell
  • 4. Harry J. Anderson
  • 5. Harlan M. Joseph

House of Representatives

All the State Representatives were elected every two years for a two-year term. They were from a district in a specific county, with the number of districts determined by the state constitution, not the size of the population.

New Castle County
  • 1. Walter Rash
  • 2. Charles H. Grantland
  • 3. Henry C. Downward
  • 4. Albert F. Vaughn
  • 5. Samuel F. Elliott
  • 6. George W. Webster
  • 7. Harvey Williams
  • 8. Benjamin L. Dickey
  • 9. John F. Richards
  • 10. Harry H. Hance
  • 11. William H. Evans
  • 12. Frederick D. Bendler
  • 13. Walter S. Letherbury
  • 14. T. Bayard Swatka
  • 15. Walter E. Donovan
Kent County
  • 1. Hervey P. Hall
  • 2. George H. Carey
  • 3. Thomas W. Mabrey
  • 4. J. Seward Daley
  • 5. Edward L. Jones
  • 6. James F. Cubbage
  • 7. Charles M. Hoch
  • 8. Thomas C. Salevan
  • 9. Gove S. Milbourne
  • 10. John W. Short
Sussex County
  • 1. Joseph G. Davis
  • 2. George A. Hill
  • 3. Frank Allen
  • 4. Eli R. Hastings
  • 5. Samuel L. Kenney
  • 6. Charles D. Lingo
  • 7. Ferdinand S. Daisey
  • 8. John D. Warrington
  • 9. Walter Roach
  • 10. Frank M. Saulsbury

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.

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