123rd Delaware General Assembly

The 123rd Delaware General Assembly was a meeting of the legislative branch of the state government, consisting of the Delaware Senate and the Delaware House of Representatives. Elections were held the first Tuesday after November 1 and terms began in Dover on the first Tuesday in January. This date was January 5, 1965, which was two weeks before the beginning of the first administrative year of Governor Charles L. Terry, Jr. and Sherman W. Tribbitt as Lieutenant Governor.

Governor Charles L. Terry, Jr.
123rd General Assembly
In office January 5, 1965 – January 3, 1967
Preceded by	122nd Assembly
Succeeded by	124th Assembly

Currently the distribution of seats for both houses was based on a court interpretation of the federal 1960 census. It resulted in a large shift in membership numbers to the New Castle County area and ruling that the election districts would abandonment of county lines for their boundaries, but could design whatever district boundaries that would accomplish such population equals. Subsequent census were adjusted such boundaries to continue such adjectives, the next being in 1972.

In the 123rd Delaware General Assembly session both chambers had a Democratic majority.

Leadership

Senate

• Curtis W. Steen, Sussex County, Democratic

House of Representatives

• Harold T. Bockman, New Castle County, Democratic

Members

Senate

About half the State Senators were elected every two years for a four-year term, except the decade district redesign year, when all served two years. They were designed for equal populations from all districts and its accomplishment occasionally included some territory from two counties.

New Castle County 1. Russell D.F. Dineen 2. Herman M. Holloway, Sr. 3. George F. Schlor 4. Joseph A. Martin 5. Louise Conner 6. John C. Kinahan

New Castle County 7. Reynolds du Pont 8. Margaret R. Manning 9. Anthony C. Moore 10. Robert I. Carney 11. Calvin R. McCullough 12. Robert C. Davidson

Kent County 13. Allen J. Cook 14. James D. McGinnis 15. George A. Robbins Sussex County 16. Walter J. Hoey 17. Curtis W. Steen 18. Eugene Bookhammer

House of Representative

All the State Representatives were elected every two years for a two-year term. They were designed for equal populations from all districts and its accomplishment occasionally included some territory from two counties.

New Castle County 1. Charles K. Kell 2. Harry S. Wilson 3. Oliver S. Fonville 4. Reese Hammond 5. Paul E. Shockley 6. Frank A. Parisi 7. John J. McMahon 8. Michael DiEleuterio 9. T. Lee Bartleson 10. Maurice Fitzharris 11. Clarice U. Heckert 12. David S. Benson

New Castle County 13. Robert N. Downs, III 14. Everette Hale 15. Vincent Bifferato 16. Ralph Edmanson 17. Robert J. Wilson 18. Harold T. Bockman 19. Mary E. Gooding 20. Melvin Slawik 21. John P. Ferguson 22. James Quigley 23. Carlton Blendt, Jr. 24. William E. Alsip

Kent County 25. Glenn W. Busker 26. Jacob W. Zimmerman 27. John P Kelly 28. Dawson H. Shulties 29. Maurice Adams Sussex County 30. W. Carlton Clifton 31. Norman A. Eskridge 32. William H. Phillips 33. Monroe B. Hudson 34. John M. Lecato 35. M. Martin Isaacs

References

• Hoffecker, Carol E. (2004). Democracy in Delaware. Wilmington, Delaware: Cedar Tree Books. ISBN 1-892142-23-6.
• Martin, Roger A. (1995). Memoirs of the Senate. Newark, Delaware: Roger A. Martin.

Places with more information

• Delaware Historical Society; website; 505 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19801; [phone]
• University of Delaware; Library website; 181 South College Avenue, Newark, Delaware 19717; [phone]