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140th Delaware General Assembly
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The 140th 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, 1999, which was two weeks before the beginning of the seventh administrative year of Democratic Governor Tom Carper from New Castle County and Democratic Lieutenant Governor Ruth Ann Minner from Kent County.
October 2024
Currently the distribution of seats for both houses was based on the interpretation of the federal 1990 census. It resulted in a large numbers of membership numbers in the New Castle County area and ruling that the election districts would abandonment of county lines for their boundaries, but would design whatever district boundaries that would accomplish such population equals.October 2024
In the 140th Delaware General Assembly session the Senate had a Democratic majority and the House had a Republican majority.
Party summary
Senate
Democratic (D): 13 (majority)
Republican (R): 8
Total members: 21House of Representatives
Democratic (D): 15
Republican (R): 26 (majority)
Total members: 41
Leadership
Senate
Lieutenant Governor (President of the Senate):
Ruth Ann Minner, Democratic of Kent County.
President pro tempore of the Senate:
Thurman G. Adams, Democratic of Sussex County.House of Representatives
Speaker of the House
Terry R. Spence, Republican of New Castle County.
Members
Senate
About half the State Senators were elected every two years for a four-year term, except the decade district redesign year, when all served two years. They were designed for equal populations from all districts and its accomplishment occasionally included some territory from two counties.
New Castle County
1. Harris McDowell III (D)
2. Margaret R. Henry (D)
3. Robert I. Marshall (D)
4. Dallas Winslow (R)
5. Myrna L Bair (R)
6. Liane M. Sorenson (R)
7. Patricia M. Blevins (D)
New Castle County
8. David P. Sokola (D)
9. Thomas B. Sharp (D)
10. Steven H. Amick (R)
11. Anthony J. DeLuca (D)
12. Dorinda A. Connor (R)
13. David B. McBride (D)
14. James T. Vaughn (D)Kent County
15. Nancy W. Cook (D)
16. Colin R. J. Bonini (R)
17. John C. Still III (R)
18. F. Gary Simpson (R)
Sussex County
19. Thurman G. Adams Jr. (D)
20. George H. Bunting Jr. (D)
21. Robert L. Venables Sr. (D)
House of Representatives
All the State Representatives were elected every two years for a two-year term. They were designed for equal populations from all districts and its accomplishment occasionally included some territory from two counties.
New Castle County
1. Dennis P. Williams (D)
2. Al O. Plant (D)
3. Arthur L. Scott (D)
4. Joseph G. DiPinto (R)
5. Helene M. Keeley (D)
6. David H. Ennis (R)
7. Wayne A. Smith (R)
8. David D. Brady (D)
9. Richard C. Cathcart (R)
10. Robert J. Valihura Jr. (R)
11. Catherine L. Cloutier (R)
12. Deborah H. Capano (R)
13. John F. Van Sant III (D)
14. Richard A. DiLiberto (D)
New Castle County
15. Bruce C. Reynolds (R)
16. William I. Houghton (D)
17. Michael P. Mulrooney (D)
18. Terry R. Spence (R)
19. Robert F. Gilligan (D)
20. Roger P. Roy (R)
21. Pamela S. Maier (R)
22. Joseph E. Miro (R)
23. Timothy U. Boulden (R)
24. William A. Oberle Jr. (R)
25. Stephanie A. Ulbrich (R)
26. John Viola (D)
27. Vincent A. Lofink (R)Kent County
28: Bruce C. Ennis (D)
29. Charles W. Welch III (R)
30. C. Robert Quillen (R)
31. Nancy Wagner (R)
32. Donna D. Stone (R)
33. G. Wallace Caulk Jr. (R)
34. Gerald A. Buckworth (R)
Sussex County
35. J. Benjamin Ewing (R)
36. V. George Carey (R)
37. John R. Schroeder (D)
38. Shirley A. Price (D)
39. Evelyn K. Fallon (R)
40. Clifford G. Lee (R)
41. Charles P. West (D)
References
The 1999-2000 Legislative Roster, Delaware State Chamber of Commerce, 1999
Places with more information
Delaware Historical Society; website; 505 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19801; (302) 655-7161.
University of Delaware; Library website; 181 South College Avenue, Newark, Delaware 19717; (302) 831-2965.
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