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The 112th 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 3, 1943, which was two weeks before the beginning of the third administrative year of Governor Walter W. Bacon and Isaac J. MacCollum as Lieutenant Governor.
Currently the distribution of the Senate Assembly seats was made to seven senators for New Castle County and for five senators to each Kent and Sussex counties. Likewise the current distribution of the House Assembly seats was made to fifteen representatives for New Castle County and for ten representatives each to Kent and Sussex counties. The actual population changes of the county did not directly affect the number of senators or representatives at this time.
In the 112th Delaware General Assembly session both chambers had a Republican majority.
Leadership
Senate
Clayton A. Bunting, Sussex County, Republican
House of Representatives
Benjamin F. Johnson, Kent County, Republican
Members
Senate
About half of the State Senators were elected every two years for a four-year term. They were from a district in a specific county, with the number of districts determined by the state constitution, not the size of the population.
New Castle County
1. James S. Evans
2. James C. McGuigan
3. George P. Edmonds
4. George W. Mullin
5. George W. Rhodes
6. Paul B. Messick
7. Harris B. McDowell Jr.Kent County
1. William D. Johnson
2. Frank Attix
3. Harry H. Jones
4. Charles L. Sipple
5. Robert H. YerkesSussex County
1. Harry H. Mulholland
2. William B. Huston
3. William H. Ayres
4. Clayton A. Bunting Sr.
5. John R. Hitchens
House of Representatives
All the State Representatives were elected every two years for a two-year term. They were from a district in a specific county, with the number of districts determined by the state constitution, not the size of the population.
New Castle County
1. Albert B. Husbands
2. W. Roy Willits
3. Ralph S. Keenen
4. Francis Q. Lemon
5. James M. Maloney
6. Raymond B. Phillips
7. Samuel B. Bird
8. Benjamin E. Hicks
9. Clarence E. McVey
10. James R. Quigley
11. Herman H. Leasure
12. George R. Clark
13. Edward L. Pleasanton
14. Frank A. Lawson
15. James C. Reynolds Jr.Kent County
1. Harry E. Manlove
2. Willard E. Barcus
3. Carl A. Hurd
4. Howard F. Schweitzer
5. Benjamin F. Johnson
6. Marion Frasher
7. Robert M. Pyott
8. Thomas E. Moore
9. Fred S. Bailey
10. George A. SwainSussex County
1. Henry D. Cook
2. Martin Uhler
3. Edward S. West
4. Martin W. Johnson Jr.
5. William E. Easom
6. William J. Rose
7. Roland F. Scott
8. Harvey H. Lawson
9. Clarence L. McIlvaine
10. Edward Millman
References
Democracy in Delaware Hoffecker Carol E. Cedar Tree Books Wilmington, Delaware 2004 1-892142-23-6
Memoirs of the Senate Martin Roger A. Roger A. Martin Newark, Delaware 1995
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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