Edward C. Stokes
Edward C. Stokes | |
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Bloomfield Minch | |
| Member of the New Jersey General Assembly | |
| In office 1891 | |
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| Born | Edward Casper Stokes December 22, 1860 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Died | November 4, 1942 (aged 81) Trenton, New Jersey |
| Political party | Republican |
Edward Casper Stokes (December 22, 1860 – November 4, 1942) was an American Republican Party politician, who served as the 32nd governor of New Jersey, from 1905 to 1908.
Biography
Stokes was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1860. He attended the Friends School in Rhode Island, and graduated from Brown University in 1883.
Stokes was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly in 1891, and was a member of the New Jersey Senate from Cumberland County between 1893 and 1901. He was the Governor between 1905 and 1908.
Stokes made his first attempt at the
Stokes won a narrow victory in the 1910 Republican primary for United States Senate, but two years before the direct election of Senators,
Stokes was the President of Mechanics National Bank in Trenton and was President of the New Jersey Bankers Association. He lost much of his own money in the stock market crash, and in 1939 the New Jersey Legislature voted to give him a $2,500-a-year pension. Stokes turned the money down and instead took a state job advising New Jersey's public information office.
Stokes died November 4, 1942, aged 81. He is buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Millville, New Jersey.
See also
References
- ^ Secretary of the State of New Jersey. "Results of the Primary Election May 15th, 1928" (PDF). Retrieved August 18, 2021.
External links
Media related to Edward Casper Stokes at Wikimedia Commons- Biography of Edward Casper Stokes (PDF), New Jersey State Library
- New Jersey Edward Casper Stokes, National Governors Association
- Edward C. Stokes at Find a Grave
- Cumberland County: Our People of the Century
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