The Governors of New Jersey : Biographical Essays.
Title:
The Governors of New Jersey : Biographical Essays.
Author:
Birkner, Michael J.
ISBN:
9780813562452
Personal Author:
Edition:
2nd ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (440 pages)
Series:
Rivergate Regionals Collection
Contents:
Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Alphabetical List of Governors -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Colony -- Philip Carteret (East New Jersey, 1665-83) -- Edmund Andros (East and West New Jersey,1674-81, 1688-89) -- Edward Byllynge (West New Jersey, 1680-87) -- Robert Barclay (East New Jersey, 1682-90) -- Daniel Coxe (West New Jersey, 1687-92) -- Andrew Hamilton (East and West New Jersey,1692-98, 1699-1703) -- Jeremiah Basse (East and West New Jersey,1698-99) -- Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury (1703-8) -- John Lovelace (1708-9) -- Richard Ingoldesby (1709-10) -- Robert Hunter (1710-20) -- William Burnet (1720-28) -- John Montgomerie (1728-31) -- William Cosby (1732-36) -- Lewis Morris (1738-46) -- Jonathan Belcher (1747-57) -- Francis Bernard (1758-60) -- Thomas Boone (1760-61) -- Josiah Hardy (1761-63) -- William Franklin (1763-76) -- The Constitution of 1776 -- William Livingston (1776-90) -- William Paterson (1790-93) -- Richard Howell (1793-1801) -- Joseph Bloomfield (1801-2, 1803-12) -- Aaron Ogden (1812-13) -- William S. Pennington (1813-15) -- Mahlon Dickerson (1815-17) -- Isaac H. Williamson (1817-29) -- Peter D. Vroom (1829-32, 1833-36) -- Samuel L. Southard (1832-33) -- Elias P. Seeley (1833) -- Philemon Dickerson (1836-37) -- William Pennington (1837-43) -- Daniel Haines (1843-45, 1848-51) -- The Constitution of 1844 -- Charles C. Stratton (1845-48) -- George F. Fort (1851-54) -- Rodman M. Price (1854-57) -- William A. Newell (1857-60) -- Charles S. Olden (1860-63) -- Joel Parker (1863-66, 1872-75) -- Marcus L. Ward (1866-69) -- Theodore F. Randolph (1869-72) -- Joseph D. Bedle (1875-78) -- George B. McClellan (1878-81) -- George C. Ludlow (1881-84) -- Leon Abbett (1884-87, 1890-93) -- Robert S. Green (1887-90) -- George T. Werts (1893-96) -- John W. Griggs (1896-98).
Foster M. Voorhees (1898-1902) -- Franklin Murphy (1902-5) -- Edward C. Stokes (1905-8) -- John F. Fort (1908-11) -- Woodrow Wilson (1911-13) -- James F. Fielder (1913-17) -- Walter E. Edge (1917-19, 1944-47) -- Edward I. Edwards (1920-23) -- George S. Silzer (1923-26) -- A. Harry Moore (1926-29, 1932-35,1938-41) -- Morgan F. Larson (1929-32) -- Harold G. Hoffman (1935-38) -- Charles Edison (1941-44) -- The Constitution of 1947 -- Alfred E. Driscoll (1947 - 54) -- Robert B. Meyner (1954 - 62) -- Richard J. Hughes (1962 - 70) -- William T. Cahill (1970 - 74) -- Brendan T. Byrne (1974 - 82) -- Thomas H. Kean (1982 - 90) -- James J. Florio (1990 - 94) -- Christine Todd Whitman (1994 - 2001) -- Donald T. DiFrancesco (2001 - 2) -- James E. McGreevey (2002 - 4) -- Richard J. Codey (2004 - 6) -- Jon S. Corzine (2006 - 10) -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
This revised edition is a thorough reference work on the New Jersey governorship, one of the strongest in the nation. It is brought current with the addition of essays on Governors Brendan T. Byrne, James Florio, Christine Todd Whitman, Donald DiFrancesco, James McGreevey, Richard Codey, and Jon Corzine. Essays included in the original edition are amended, edited, and corrected as necessary by the original authors in light of new and relevant scholarship.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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