Henry McNamara

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Sen. Henry P. McNamara
Sen. Henry P. McNamara

Henry P. McNamara (born December 9, 1934) is an American Republican Party politician, who has been serving in the New Jersey State Senate since 1985-2008, where he represented the 40th Legislative District. In the Senate, he was Minority Whip from 1990 to 1991. The Senator is currently a member of the Senate Environment Committee and the Transportation Committee.[1]

McNamara has announced that he won't run for re-election in 2007 and stepped down when his term ended in 2008.[2]

McNamara sponsored New Jersey’s open space trust fund, wrote the law to clean up 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. Senator McNamara also spent a year as Mayor of Wyckoff in 1979, and served as Deputy Mayor in 1980, and was a member of the Bergen County Board of Chosen Freeholders from 1984 to 1986.[1]

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

McNamara received a B.A. from Seton Hall University in Classical Languages.[1]

[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:

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Senator McNamara's Senate Website, New Jersey Legislature. Accessed June 21, 2007.
  2. ^ Gohlke, Josh. "Senate exodus: Why so many are retiring", The Record (Bergen County), April 1, 2007. Accessed June 21, 2007.

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