Governors
of New Jersey
I.
Colonial Period
1665-1703 Proprietors; 1703-1776 Royal Government
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Philip
Carteret
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East
New Jersey
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1665-82
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Edmund
Andros
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East
and West New Jersey
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1674-81;
1688-89
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Edward
Byllynge
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West
New Jersey
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1680-87
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Robert
Barclay
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East
New Jersey
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1682-90
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Daniel
Coxe
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West
New Jersey
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1687-92
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Andrew
Hamilton
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East
and West New Jersey
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1692-98,
1699-1703
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Jeremiah
Basse
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East
and West New Jersey
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1698-99
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Edward
Hyde, Lord Cornbury
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New
York and New Jersey
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1703-8
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John
Lovelace
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New
York and New Jersey
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1708-9
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Richard
Ingoldesby
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New
York and New Jersey
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1709-10
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Robert
Hunter
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New
York and New Jersey
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1710-20
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William
Burnet
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New
York and New Jersey
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1720-28
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John
Montgomerie
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New
York and New Jersey
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1728-31
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William
Cosby
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New
York and New Jersey
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1732-36
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Lewis
Morris
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New
Jersey
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1738-46
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Jonathan
Belcher
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New
Jersey
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1747-57
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Francis
Bernard
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New
Jersey
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1758-60
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Thomas
Boone
|
New
Jersey
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1760-61
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Josiah
Hardy
|
New
Jersey
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1761-63
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William
Franklin
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New
Jersey
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1763-76
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II.
Governors Under Constitution 1776
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William
Livingston
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Patriot
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1776-90
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William
Paterson
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Federalist
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1790-93
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Richard
Howell
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Federalist
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1793-1801
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Joseph
Bloomfield
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Jeffersonian-Republican
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1801-2;
1803-12
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Aaron
Ogden
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Federalist
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1812-13
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William
S. Pennington
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Jeffersonian-Republican
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1813-15
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Mahlon
Dickerson
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Jeffersonian-Republican
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1815-17
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Isaac
H. Williamson
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Jeffersonian-Republican
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1817-29
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Peter
D. Vroom
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Democrat
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1829-32;
1833-36
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Samuel
L. Southard
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Whig
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1832-33
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Elias
P. Seeley
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Whig
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1833
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Philemon
Dickerson
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Democrat
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1836-37
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William
Pennington
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Whig
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1837-43
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Daniel
Haines
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Democrat
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1843-45;
1848-51
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III.
Governors Under Constitution of 1844
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Charles
C. Stratton
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Whig
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1845-48
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George
F. Fort
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Democrat
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1851-54
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Rodman
M. Price
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Democrat
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1854-57
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William
A. Newell
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Republican
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1857-60
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Charles
S. Olden
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Republican
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1860-63
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Joel
Parker
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Democrat
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1863-66;
1872-75
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Marcus
L. Ward
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Republican
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1866-69
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Theordore
F. Randolph
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Democrat
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1869-72
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Joseph
D. Bedle
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Democrat
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1875-78
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George
B. McClellan
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Democrat
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1878-81
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George
C. Ludlow
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Democrat
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1881-84
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Leon
Abbett
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Democrat
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1884-87;
1890-93
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Robert
S. Green
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Democrat
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1887-90
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George
T. Werts
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Democrat
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1893-96
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John
W. Griggs
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Republican
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1896-98
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Foster
M. Vorhees
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Republican
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1898-1902
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Franklin
Murphy
|
Republican
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1902-05
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Edward
C. Stokes
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Republican
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1905-08
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John
Franklin Fort
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Republican
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1908-11
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Woodrow
Wilson
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Democrat
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1911-13
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James
F. Fielder
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Democrat
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1913-17
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Walter
E. Edge
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Republican
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1917-19;
1944-47
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Edward
I. Edwards
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Democrat
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1920-23
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George
S. Silzer
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Democrat
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1923-26
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A.
Harry Moore
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Democrat
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1926-29;
1932-35; 1938-41
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Morgan
F. Larson
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Republican
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1929-32
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Harold
Hoffman
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Republican
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1935-38
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Charles
Edison
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Democrat
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1941-44
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IV.
Governors Under Constitution of 1947
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Alfred
E. Driscoll
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Republican
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1947-54
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Robert
B. Meyner
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Democrat
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1954-62
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Richard
J. Hughes
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Democrat
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1962-70
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William
T. Cahill
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Republican
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1970-74
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Brendan
Byrne
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Democrat
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1974-82
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Thomas
Kean
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Republican
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1982-90
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James
Florio
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Democrat
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1990-94
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Christine
Whitman
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Republican
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1994-2001
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Donald
T. Di Francesco
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Republican
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2001-2002
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James
McGreevey
|
Democrat
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2002-2004
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Richard
J. Codey
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Democrat
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2004-
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