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The 127th 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 2, 1973, which was two weeks before the beginning of the first administrative year of Governor Sherman W. Tribbitt and Eugene Bookhammer as Lieutenant Governor.
October 2024
Currently the distribution of seats for both houses was based on the interpretation of the federal 1970 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 127th Delaware General Assembly session the Senate had a Democratic majority and the House had a Republican majority.
Leadership
Senate
J. Donald Isaacs, New Castle County, Democratic
House of Representatives
John F. Kirk Jr., New Castle County, Republican
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. Mike Castle
2. Herman Holloway
3. George F. Schlor
4. Robert J. Berndt
5. Charles E. Hughes
6. Dean C. Steele
7. Reynolds du Pont
8. Margaret R. Manning
New Castle County
9. George Jarvis
10. Everette Hale
11. Anthony J. Cicione
12. Calvin R. McCullough
13. Francis J. Kearns
14. Roger A. Martin
15. J. Donald IsaacsKent County
16. Allen J. Cook
Nancy W. Cook
17. Jacob W. Zimmerman
18. William M. Murphy Jr.
Sussex County
19. Thurman G. Adams Jr.
20. Richard S. Cordrey
21. David H. Elliott
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. Kermit H. Justice
2. Amos B. McCluney Jr.
3. Henrietta R. Johnson
4. Marcello Rispoli
5. Casimir S. Jonklert
6. Francis M. Jornlin
7. Joseph P. Ambrosino Jr.
8. Herbert A. Lesher
9. Clarice U. Heckert
10. Daniel E. Weiss
11. Richard Sincock
12. William T. Poulterer III
13. Andrew G. Knox
14. Thomas L. du Pont
15. Philip W. Orth
New Castle County
16. John A. Dillman Jr.
17. John Matushefske
18. Kenneth W. Boulden Sr.
19. Robert T. Connor
20. John P. Ferguson
21. Robert F. Gilligan
22. John H. Arnold
23. Robert S. Powell
24. James E. Crow
25. John G. S. Billingsley
26. Marion I. Seibel
27. Sandra L. Worthen
28. John F. Kirk Jr.
29. Winifred SpenceKent County
30. Robert W. Riddagh
31. Hudson E. Gruwell
32. James D. McGinnis
33. George A. Robbins
34. John E. Morris
35. Robert L. Darlling
Sussex County
36. Lewis B. Harrington
37. Harry E. Derrickson
38. Howard A. Clendaniel
39. Thomas A. Temple Sr.
40. William J. Gordy
41. Donald J. Lynch
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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