129th Delaware General Assembly explained

Body:Delaware General Assembly
Before:128th
After:130th

The 129th 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 4, 1977, which was two weeks before the beginning of the first administrative year of Republican Governor Pete du Pont from New Castle County and the first year for Republican Lieutenant Governor James D. McGinnis from Kent County.

Currently the distribution of seats for both houses was based on the interpretation of the federal 1970 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.

In the 129th Delaware General Assembly session both chambers had a Democratic majority.

Leadership

Senate

House of Representatives

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

New Castle County

  • 9. Thomas B. Sharp
  • 10. Everette Hale
  • 11. Anthony J. Cicione
  • 12. Calvin R. McCullough
  • 13. Francis J. Kearns
  • 14. Roger A. Martin
  • 15. Winifred Spence

Kent County

  • 16. Nancy W. Cook
  • 17. Jacob W. Zimmerman
  • 18. William M. Murphy Jr.

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. Henrietta R. Johnson
  • 4. Marcello Rispoli
  • 5. Casimir S. Jonkiert
  • 6. Thomas E. Brady Jr.
  • 7. Joseph P. Ambrosino Jr.
  • 8. Joseph Loughney
  • 9. Charles L. Hebner Sr.
  • 10. Gwynne P. Smith
  • 11. Richard Sincock
  • 12. C. Leslie Ridings
  • 13. John P. McKay
  • 14. Robert Maxwell
  • 15. Robert Byrd

New Castle County

  • 16. Daniel J. Kelly
  • 17. John Matushefske
  • 18. Kenneth W. Boulden Sr.
  • 19. Robert T. Connor
  • 20. John P. Ferguson
  • 21. Robert F. Gilligan
  • 22. Roger P. Roy
  • 23. Robert S. Powell
  • 24. William A. Oberle Jr.
  • 25. John G. S. Billingsley
  • 26. Marian P. Anderson
  • 27. Sandra L. Worthen
  • 28. Gerald S. Cain
  • 29. William H. Brady II

Kent County

  • 30. Robert W. Riddagh
  • 31. Karen Miller
  • 32. Edward J. Bennett
  • 33. Ruth Ann Minner
  • 34. John E. Morris
  • 35. Robert L. Darling

Sussex County

References

Places with more information

website; 505 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19801; (302) 655-7161.
Library website; 181 South College Avenue, Newark, Delaware 19717; (302) 831-2965.