Newton A.K. Bugbee
Newton Albert Kendall Bugbee | |
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New Jersey Republican State Committee | |
In office 1913–1917 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. | April 21, 1876
Died | June 1, 1965 Trenton, New Jersey, U.S. | (aged 89)
Parent(s) | Alvin Newton Bugbee Lucy Kendall Davis |
Newton Albert Kendall Bugbee (April 21, 1876 – June 1965) was an American businessman and
Early life
Bugbee was born on April 21, 1876 in
As a young man newly arrived in Trenton, Bugbee played for the Trenton Basketball Team (1896-1897), now recognized as the first professional basketball team. They played their first game on November 7, 1896 against the Brooklyn YMCA, winning 16-1. Bugbee played "side center" and scored the first field goal.[2]
Political career
Bugbee was active in Trenton civic life and New Jersey Republican politics. He became Chairman of the
Bugbee resigned from the party chairmanship to run for Governor of New Jersey in 1919. The paramount issue in that election year was Prohibition, since the Eighteenth Amendment had already been ratified but would not be enforced until the beginning of 1920. In the Republican primary Bugbee faced William Nelson Runyon, who had served as Acting Governor following Edge's election to the United States Senate, and Thomas L. Raymond, mayor of Newark. Runyon ran as a "dry" (supporting Prohibition), Raymond ran as a "wet" (opposing Prohibition), while Bugbee took a middle position. With the support of local party machinery, particularly in southern counties, Bugbee defeated Runyon and Raymond by a margin of 38%-34%-23%, with the remaining 4% going to Warren C. King, a relative unknown from Middlesex County.[3][4]
The general election campaign against Democratic candidate
Bugbee served as Comptroller until the end of his term in 1929. He continued his business career with his engineering firm in Trenton, also becoming the director of the Trenton Savings Fund Society and the first president of the Hanover Trust Company of Trenton.[1]
His wife died in 1937.[5] He died in June 1965 at the age of 89 in Trenton, New Jersey.[6]
References
- ^ a b c William Starr MyersThe Story of New Jersey (1945). Reprinted as Prominent Families of New Jersey (Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000).
- ISBN 978-0-8032-8772-3
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8135-3267-7
- ^ "The New Jersey Governor who shot himself in the head". PolitickerNJ.com, October 8, 2007. Accessed March 30, 2008.
- New York Times. November 6, 1937.
- ^ Social Security Death Index via Ancestry.com.