E. Donald Sterner
E. Donald Sterner | |
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Harold Giles Hoffman | |
Chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee | |
In office 1934–1935 | |
Preceded by | E. Bertram Mott |
Succeeded by | Henry W. Jeffers |
Personal details | |
Born | Edwin Donald Sterner October 20, 1911 Belmar, New Jersey |
Died | September 30, 1983 Jersey Shore Medical Center Neptune City, New Jersey | (aged 89)
Parent(s) | Willard J. Sterner Jennie L. Disbrow |
Education | Asbury Park High School |
Edwin Donald Sterner (January 3, 1894 – September 30, 1983) was an American lumberman and
Biography
Sterner was born in Belmar, New Jersey, on January 3, 1894, to Willard J. Sterner and Jennie L. Disbrow.
After graduating from
After the war he returned to Belmar and managed the Sterner Coal and Lumber Company, founded by his father in 1919.
He married Dorothy and had as their children: two sons, George W. Sterner, of Wall Township, New Jersey; and John N. Sterner of Spring Lake Heights; a daughter, Dorothy Sterner Braly of Baltimore, Maryland.[1]
He became active in local Republican politics and was elected to the
In 1935 the New Jersey Legislature passed a bill replacing the four-member Highway Commission with a single commissioner. Hoffman appointed Sterner to the new post.[3] He served for seven years, continuing under Hoffman's Democratic successors, A. Harry Moore and Charles Edison. Edison launched an investigation of corruption in the Highway Department, and Sterner resigned in 1942. When the full report of the investigation was released the following year, it found malfeasance in some cases of land acquisition for right-of-way purposes, where property owners represented by influential politicians were given sweetheart deals.[4]
Sterner continued to serve as president of the Sterner Coal and Lumber Company in Belmar. He later served as president of the New Jersey Lumbermen's Association and in 1950 was appointed to the National Lumber and Allied Products Retailers Industry Advisory Committee to the United States Department of Commerce.
A resident of
References
- ^ a b c d "Donald Sterner, 89. Held Jersey State Posts". The New York Times. October 3, 1983.
E. Donald Sterner, a lumber company president who served as a New Jersey state senator and became the state's first Highway Commissioner, died Friday at the Jersey Shore Medical Center in Neptune City. He was 89 years old and lived in Avon
- ^ History of Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1664–1920 (1922).
- ^ "Hoffman Appoints 1-Man Road Board". The New York Times, April 30, 1935. Accessed March 29, 2008.
- ^ "Sterner Assailed in Jersey Report". The New York Times, May 29, 1943. Accessed March 29, 2008.