132nd Delaware General Assembly

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132nd Delaware General Assembly
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Legislative body Delaware General Assembly
TermJanuary 4, 1983 (1983-01-04) – January 8, 1985 (1985-01-08)

The 132nd 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 3, 1983, which was two weeks before the beginning of the seventh administrative year of Republican Governor Pete du Pont from New Castle County and the third year for Republican Lieutenant Governor Mike Castle, also from New Castle County.

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Currently the distribution of seats for both houses was based on the interpretation of the federal 1980 census. It resulted in a large numbers of membership numbers in the New Castle County area and ruling that the election districts would abandonment of county lines for their boundaries, but would design whatever district boundaries that would accomplish such population equals.[ citation needed ]

In the 132nd Delaware General Assembly session both chambers had a Democratic majority.

Leadership

Senate
House of Representatives
  • Orlando J. George Jr., 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. Harris McDowell III
  • 2. Herman M. Holloway Sr.
  • 3. Robert I. Marshall
  • 4. Robert J. Berndt
  • 5. Myrna L. Bair
  • 6. Andrew G. Knox
  • 7. Angelo T. Citro
New Castle County
  • 8. John H. Arnold
  • 9. Thomas B. Sharp
  • 10. James P. Neal
  • 11. Roger A. Martin
  • 12. Robert T. Connor
  • 13. David B. McBride
  • 14. James T. Vaughn
Kent County
  • 15. Nancy W. Cook
  • 16. William C. Torbert
  • 17. Jacob W. Zimmerman
  • 18. Ruth Ann Minner
Sussex County

House of Representatives

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. Orlando J. George Jr.
  • 2. Al O. Plant Sr.
  • 3. Herman M. Holloway Jr.
    • James H. Sills Jr.
  • 4. Kevin Free
  • 5. Casimir S. Jonkiert
  • 6. David H. Ennis
  • 7. Gwynne P. Smith
  • 8. David D. Brady
  • 9. Charles L. Hebner Sr.
  • 10. Jane P. Maroney
  • 11. Marybeth T. Boykin
  • 12. Philip J. Corrozi
  • 13. John F. Van Sant III
  • 14. John A. Campanelli
New Castle County
  • 15. Rodney Dixon
  • 16. William I. Houghton
  • 17. Jeffrey G. Mack
  • 18. Terry R. Spence
  • 19. Robert F. Gilligan
  • 20. Roger P. Roy
  • 21. Vincent P. Meconi
  • 22. Joseph R. Petrilli
  • 23. Ada Leigh Soles
  • 24. William A. Oberle Jr.*
  • 25. Marian P. Anderson
  • 26. Richard Myers
    • Richard F. Davis
  • 27. Katherine M. Jester
Kent County
  • 28: Bruce C. Ennis
  • 29. Donald M. Clark
  • 30. George R. Quillen
  • 31. E. Stuart Outten Jr.
  • 32. Edward J. Bennett
  • 33. Harry K. F. Terry
  • 34. Gerald A. Buckworth
Sussex County
  • 35. B. Bradford Barnes
  • 36. Howard A. Clendaniel
  • 37. Jay D. Wingate
  • 38. George H. Bunting Jr.
  • 39. Evelyn K. Fallon
  • 40. Carroll B. Cordrey
  • 41. Charles P. West

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