Henry McNamara

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Henry P. McNamara (born December 9, 1934) is an American Republican Party politician, who has been serving in the New Jersey State Senate since 1985, where he represents the 40th Legislative District. In the Senate, he was Minority Whip from 1990 to 1991. The Senator is a member of the Senate Environment Committee and the Transportation Committee.

McNamara sponsored New Jersey’s open space trust fund, wrote the law to cleanup underground storage tanks, re-wrote the laws governing toxic waste cleanup and led the way for a “Brownfields” law – a plan to get private investors to clean up polluted industrial sites and make those sites clean and useful again.

Before entering the Senate, McNamara spent six years in the New Jersey National Guard, and was a member of the Bergen County Board of Chosen Freeholders from 1984 to 1986. Senator McNamara also spent a year as Mayor of Wyckoff in 1979, and served as Deputy Mayor in 1980.

In 2002, McNamara ran for County Executive of Bergen County, losing to Dennis McNerney in the general election.

[edit] District 40

Each of the forty districts in the New Jersey Legislature has one representative in the New Jersey Senate and two members in the New Jersey General Assembly. The other representatives from the 40th Legislative District are:

• Assemblyman David C. Russo, and
• Assemblyman Kevin J. O'Toole

[edit] External links

• [1] Senator McNamara's Senate Website
• [2] New Jersey Voter Information Website 2003
• [3] New Jersey Legislature financial disclosure form for 2005 (PDF)
• [4] New Jersey Legislature financial disclosure form for 2004 (PDF)

New Jersey Senate

1: Nicholas Asselta (R) | 2: James J. McCullough (R) | 3: Stephen M. Sweeney (D) | 4: Fred H. Madden (D) | 5: Wayne R. Bryant (D) | 6: John Adler (D) | 7: Diane B. Allen (R) | 8: Martha W. Bark (R) | 9: Leonard T. Connors (R) | 10: Andrew R. Ciesla (R) | 11: Joseph A. Palaia (R) | 12: Ellen Karcher (D) | 13: Joseph M. Kyrillos (R) | 14: Peter Inverso (R) | 15: Shirley Turner (D) | 16: Walter Kavanaugh (R) | 17: Bob Smith (D) | 18: Barbara Buono (D) | 19: Joseph Vitale (D) | 20: Raymond Lesniak (D) | 21: Thomas Kean Jr. (R) | 22: Nicholas Scutari (D) | 23: Leonard Lance (R) | 24: Robert Littell (R) | 25: Anthony Bucco (R) | 26: Robert Martin (R) | 27: Richard Codey (D) | 28: Ronald Rice (D) | 29: Sharpe James (D) | 30: Robert Singer (R) | 31: Joseph Doria (D) | 32: Nicholas Sacco (D) | 33: Bernard Kenny (D) | 34: Nia Gill (D) | 35: John Girgenti (D) | 36: Paul Sarlo (D) | 37: Loretta Weinberg (D) | 38: Joseph Coniglio (D) | 39: Gerald Cardinale (R) | 40: Henry McNamara (R)