Thomas P. Giblin

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Assemblyman Thomas P. Giblin

Thomas P. Giblin (born January 15, 1947) is an American Democratic Party politician, who serves in the New Jersey General Assembly where he represents the 34th legislative district, having taken office on January 10, 2006.

Giblin was elected to the Assembly on November 8, 2005, filling the seat of fellow Democrat Peter C. Eagler, who chose not to run for re-election and had held the seat in the Assembly since 2002.

Giblin is a prominent Democratic Party leader and is a longtime union leader in New Jersey. He previously served as a member of the Essex County Board of Chosen Freeholders from 1982-1990 and from 1977-1978, and as the Essex County Surrogate from 1990-1993. He was a longtime chairman of the Essex County Democratic Committee and served four years as chairman of the New Jersey Democratic State Committee. He ran unsuccessfully for County Executive of Essex County in 1994 and 2002. Giblin served on the New Jersey Real Estate Commission from 1979-82.

He served in the New Jersey Air National Guard from 1966-1972, achieving the rank of Staff Sergeant.

In December 1996, Giblin was a member of the New Jersey State Electoral College, one of 15 electors casting their votes for the Clinton/Gore ticket.^[1]

Giblin received a B.A. from Seton Hall University in Political Science and has done Post-Graduate Studies at Seton Hall University and Rutgers University.

On November 20, 2006, investigators from the United States Postal Inspection Service and the United States Department of Labor raided Giblin's office as part of an undisclosed investigation, seizing documents and computer data.^[2]

[edit] District 34

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 34th Legislative District for the 2006-2008 session are:

Assemblyman Sheila Y. Oliver, and
Senator Nia Gill

[edit] References

^ 1996 Electoral College Votes, accessed December 21, 2006
^ Union offices raided, The Courier-Post, November 21, 2006

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Preceded by ?	Chairman of the New Jersey Democratic State Committee 1997 – 2001	Succeeded by Joseph J. Roberts

Current members of the New Jersey General Assembly This box: view • talk • edit
1: Albano (D), Van Drew (D) 2: Blee (R), Whelan (D) 3: Burzichelli (D), Fisher (D) 4: Mayer (D), Moriarty (D) 5: Perez (D), Roberts (D) 6: Greenwald (D), Lampitt (D) 7: Conaway (D), Conners (D) 8: Bodine (R), Chatzidakis (R) 9: Connors (R), Rumpf (R) 10: Holzapfel (R), Wolfe (R)	11: Corodemus (R), Kean (R) 12: Beck (R), Panter (D) 13: Handlin (R), Thompson (R) 14: Baroni (R), Greenstein (D) 15: Gusciora (D), Watson Coleman (D) 16: Bateman (R), Biondi (R) 17: Chivukula (D), Egan (D) 18: Barnes (D), Diegnan (D) 19: Vas (D), Wisniewski (D) 20: Cohen (D), Cryan (D)	21: Bramnick (R), Munoz (R) 22: Green (D), Stender (D) 23: Doherty (R), Karrow (R) 24: Gregg (R), McHose (R) 25: Carroll (R), Merkt (R) 26: DeCroce (R), Pennacchio (R) 27: Hackett (D), McKeon (D) 28: Stanley (D), Truitt (D) 29: Caraballo (D), Payne (D) 30: Dancer (R), Malone (R)	31: Epps, Jr. (D), Manzo (D) 32: Prieto (D), Quigley (D) 33: Vega (D), Stack (D) 34: Giblin (D), Oliver (D) 35: Pou (D), Steele (D) 36: Scalera (D), Schaer (D) 37: Johnson (D), Huttle (D) 38: Gordon (D), Voss (D) 39: Rooney (R), Vandervalk (R) 40: O'Toole (R), Russo (R)
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