| 词条 | Arthur Vervaet | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Arthur W. (Bud) Vervaet, Jr. (July 10, 1913 – November 20, 1999) was an American Republican Party politician who served four terms in the New Jersey General Assembly. He attended Butler High School and graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1936. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He was employed by W.R. Grace and Company, and then for the Vervaet Woven Label, a New Jersey-based family business. He was elected Councilman in Oakland, New Jersey in 1950, and served as Mayor of Oakland from 1952 to 1953. He was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly in 1951, and was re-elected in 1953, 1955 and 1957.[1] He was elected to the Bergen County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders in 1958 and resigned his Assembly seat after taking office in 1959.[2] He was re-elected Freeholder in 1961. In 1965, Vervaet became a candidate for the New Jersey State Senate. Backed by the Republican County Chairman, Walter H. Jones, he won a hotly contested Republican Primary in which the incumbent Senator, Pierce H. Deamer, who defeated for renomination. Vervaet received 10,519 more votes than Deamer.[3] But Vervaet lost the General Election in what turned out to be a heavily Democratic year. He trailed Alfred Kiefer by nearly 8,000 votes.[4] He was married to Dorothy Ryerson MacEvoy Vervaet (1921-1973) and had three children: Gat, Alden, and Karen.[5] 1965 Republican Primary for State Senator - Bergen County - Four Seats
References1. ^Coutros, Evonne. "ARTHUR VERVAET JR. OF OAKLAND, 86 -- DECORATED VETERAN WAS TOWN'S MAYOR"{{dead link|date=February 2019|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, The Record (Bergen County), November 23, 1999. Accessed September 12, 2015. "Arthur W. Vervaet Jr., a former state assemblyman, Bergen County freeholder, and mayor of Oakland, died Saturday at his home in Oakland." {{DEFAULTSORT:Vervaet, Arthur}}{{NewJersey-politician-stub}}2. ^{{cite book|title=Fitzgerald's Legislative Manual of New Jersey|date=1958|publisher=Joseph J. Gribbons}} 3. ^{{cite news|title=Our Campaigns|url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=750647|accessdate=3 December 2014}} 4. ^{{cite web|title=Our Campaigns|url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=741444}} 5. ^{{cite book|title=Fitzgerald's Legislative Manual of New Jersey|date=1958|publisher=Joseph J. Gribbons}} 6. ^{{cite web|title=Our Campaigns|url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=750647|accessdate=3 December 2014}} 11 : 1913 births|1999 deaths|Members of the New Jersey General Assembly|County freeholders in New Jersey|New Jersey city council members|Mayors of places in New Jersey|New Jersey Republicans|University of Notre Dame alumni|American military personnel of World War II|People from Oakland, New Jersey|20th-century American politicians |
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