108th Delaware General Assembly

108th Delaware General Assembly
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Overview
Legislative body	Delaware General Assembly
Term	January 8, 1935 (1935-01-08) – January 5, 1937 (1937-01-05)

The 108th 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 on the first Tuesday after November 1, and terms began in Dover on the first Tuesday in January. This date was January 8, 1935, two weeks before the beginning of the seventh administrative year of Governor C. Douglass Buck and the third administrative year of Roy F. Corley as Lieutenant Governor.

Currently, the distribution of the Senate Assembly seats comprises seven senators for New Castle County and five for each Kent and Sussex County. Likewise, the current distribution of the House Assembly seats comprises fifteen representatives for New Castle County and ten representatives each to the 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 108th Delaware General Assembly session, both chambers had a Republican majority.

Leadership

Senate

• Levi G. Maloney, New Castle County, Republican

House of Representatives

• Harry V. Lyons, Sussex 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, and the number of districts was determined by the state constitution, not the size of the population.

New Castle County 1. William A. Simonton 2. Edward I. Glenn 3. Donald P. Ross 4. Carl R. Vansant 5. Norris N. Wright 6. W. Maily Davis 7. Levi G. Maloney

Kent County 1. William E. Matthews Jr. 2. Charles A. Neugebauer 3. Frank C. Bancroft 4. Milton T. Frasher 5. James L. Davis

Sussex County 1. Samuel M. D. Marshall 2. John R. Cannon 3. Ebe H. Chandler 4. James B. McCabe 5. Fred A. Walls

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, and the number of districts was determined by the state constitution, not the size of the population.

New Castle County 1. Leo J. Dugan 2. Frank R. Zebley 3. James S. Evans 4. Sigmund Schorr 5. Joseph M. Brogan 6. Burton S. Heal 7. Henry C. White 8. Robert B. Kelton 9. George I. Durnall 10. James G. Shaw 11. Archie L. Peel 12. George R. Clark 13. Frank R. Pool 14. Joseph C. Hutchinson 15. William T. Hobson

Kent County 1. William G. Roe 2. Howard M. Buckson 3. Carroll B. Brown 4. Randolph Hughes 5. Morris Simon 6. Harry J. Dill 7. Leon A. Bailey 8. F. Leslie Rentz 9. Walter J. Paskey Jr. 10. Willard R. Pierce

Sussex County 1. Lawrence E. Warren 2. Alvin O. Baker 3. Leroy B. Hurley 4. John M. Tyndall 5. Fred M. Wright 6. James J. Esham 7. Albert P. Lekites 8. William D. Steele 9. Frank L. Joseph 10. Harry V. Lyons

References

• Hoffecker, Carol E. (2004). Democracy in Delaware. Wilmington, Delaware: Cedar Tree Books. ISBN 1-892142-23-6.
• Martin, Roger A. (1995). Memoirs of the Senate. Newark, Delaware: Roger A. Martin.