Vice-President of Council

The Vice-President of Council of the New Jersey Legislature would succeed the Governor (who was the President of the Council) if a vacancy occurred in that office.

List of past Vice-Presidents of Council

The following is a list of past Vice-Presidents of the New Jersey Council from the adoption of the 1776 State Constitution.

1776-81: John Stevens, Hunterdon
1782: John Cox, Burlington
1783-84: Philemon Dickinson, Hunterdon
1785-88: Robert Lettis Hooper, Hunterdon
1789-92: Elisha Lawrence, Monmouth (acting Governor 1790)
1793-94: Thomas Henderson, Monmouth (acting Governor 1793 & 1794)
1795: Elisha Lawrence, Monmouth
1796-97: James Linn, Somerset
1798-1800: George Anderson, Burlington
1801-04: John Lambert, Hunterdon (acting Governor 1802-03)
1805: Thomas Little, Monmouth
1806: George Anderson, Burlington
1807: Ebenezer Elmer, Cumberland
1808: Ebenezer Seeley, Cumberland
1809: Thomas Ward, Essex
1810-11: Charles Clark, Essex (acting Governor 1812)
1812: James Schureman, Middlesex
1813: Charles Clark, Essex
1814-15: William Kennedy, Sussex (acting Governor 1815)
1816-22: Jesse Upson, Morris
1823-25: Peter J. Stryker, Somerset
1826: Ephraim Bateman, Cumberland
1827: Silas Cook, Morris
1828: Caleb Newbold, Burlington
1829-30: Edward Condict, Morris
1831-32: Elias P. Seeley, Cumberland (acting Governor 1833)
1833: Mahlon Dickerson, Morris
1834: John Patterson (New Jersey), Monmouth
1835: Charles Sitgreaves, Warren
1836: Jeptha P. Munn, Morris
1837-38: Andrew Parsons, Passaic
1839-40: Joseph Porter, Gloucester
1841: John Cassedy, Bergen
1842: William Chetwood, Essex
1843: Jehu Patterson, Monmouth
(1844 elections were for the new New Jersey Senate that met in January 1845)

References

List from "Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey", date: various (pre 1950)

External links

The New Jersey Constitution of 1776

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