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
• 1842: John Cassedy, Bergen
• 1843: William Chetwood, Essex
• 1844: 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