New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . aight, DanielHolmes, and Robert Laird, and Morris County sentto the convention Francis Child, Mahlon Dicker-son, Ephraim Marsh, and William N. Passaic County were Elias B. D. Ogden andAndrew Parsons; from Salem County AlexanderG. Cattell, John H. Lambert, and Richard ; and from Somerset County George , Ferdinand S. Schenck, and Peter The Sussex County delegation was com-posed of John Bell, Joseph E. Edsall, and MartinRyerson, while that of Warren County containedSamuel Hibbler, Phineas B.
New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . aight, DanielHolmes, and Robert Laird, and Morris County sentto the convention Francis Child, Mahlon Dicker-son, Ephraim Marsh, and William N. Passaic County were Elias B. D. Ogden andAndrew Parsons; from Salem County AlexanderG. Cattell, John H. Lambert, and Richard ; and from Somerset County George , Ferdinand S. Schenck, and Peter The Sussex County delegation was com-posed of John Bell, Joseph E. Edsall, and MartinRyerson, while that of Warren County containedSamuel Hibbler, Phineas B. Kennedy, and RobertS. Kennedy. This was indeed a notable body of men. Dur-ing the period of the Civil War John C. Ten Eyckwas to sit in the United States Senate, as wasJohn R. Thompson until his death in December,1862. Alexander G. Cattell was later a federalsenator. Mahlon Dickerson had already beenfrom 1829 to 1833 a member of that body. Twoex-governors, Peter D. Vroom and Isaac H. Will-iamson, were among the number, while Charles 282 NEW JERSEY AS A OOL <!S^{. C. Stratton was to become the first governor of theState under the new document which he helpedto prepare. Henry W. Green was soon to occupythe office of chief justice and later that of chan-cellor, which latter office was shortly to be filledby Oliver S. Halsted. Joseph C. Hornblower hadlong been chief justice of the Supreme Court,while of associate justices there were Daniel El-mer and Elias B. D. Ogden. Alexander Wurts,Abraham Browning, and Richard P. Thompsonhad been or were to be attorney-generals of theState, while many of the other members had satin Congress or the State Legislature, and all wereconversant with the needs of New Jersey. Rarely if ever had so large, so able, a body metwithin the limits of the commonwealth, or a bodymore thoroughly patriotic. From the long butnever acrimonious or personal discussions all par-tisanship was eliminated. The delegates had aneye single to the good of the State. The
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