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George Theodore Werts

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400:, a member of the influential Kean family of Republicans. Kean campaigned against the Abbett administration's record, condemning Democratic election fraud, graft, and subservience to liquor and gambling interests. Werts did not play an active part in the campaign, instead deferring to party chair Allan L. McDermott. McDermott chose not to answer the charge of corruption and instead focused the race on national issues and opposition to President 1431: 33: 1498: 281: 421:
where the restraint of combination is ... simply the natural consequence and not the intent, the combination is not improper; where the object is to destroy competition and obtain control of ... production ... such combination is unlawful." Werts pledged a continuation of the Democratic policy in the state of encouraging combination through liberal incorporation laws.
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Werts's annual message to the legislature in 1895 reiterated his support for prison expansion and ballot reform, adding a call for water conservation. None of these measures were enacted. Instead, the legislature passed the Storrs Naturalization Act, which prohibited naturalization in the final month
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In the fall elections, the Republicans won an overwhelming 30,000 vote majority and gained control of the Assembly and Senate. Republicans, backed mostly by evangelical Protestant opponents of gambling, also won votes in opposition to Catholic efforts to pass public funding for parochial schools and
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The 1894 legislature was dominated by Republican attempts to remove Democratic officeholders from appointed positions and restrict religious teaching in public schools. The unsuccessful Democratic campaign of 1894 attempt to identify Republicans with prohibition and anti-Catholic organizations like
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Instead of accepting the results, the Democratic minority organized a rump session and refused to certify the elections. They advised Werts of their intention, and he acquiesced. The state constitutional crisis, with two functioning Senates, lasted until March 1894 until the Supreme Court ruled the
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A well-authenticated rumor that prevails around the State House this evening is that neither Lippincott, Garretson, nor Kirkpatrick will be chosen to succeed the late Justice Manning M. Knapp, but that the choice seat on the Supreme Court Bench will be awarded to Senator George T. Werts of Morris
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In his inaugural address, Werts proposed expanding prison facilities, creating a juvenile reformatory, and passing ballot-reform legislation. The focus of his remarks was responding to critics who called for anti-trust legislation in New Jersey. "The distinction appears to be," he observed, "that
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The 1893 legislature passed an unpopular bill to legalize racetrack gambling. Though Werts vetoed the bill, opponents blamed Werts's haste for preventing effective mobilization against gambling interests. The legislature passed the bill again, overriding his veto.
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Werts served two terms in the State Senate from 1887 to 1893. He focused his efforts in the Senate on election reform and a local option on liquor regulation. Both were politically motivated and ineffectual, but brought him to the attention of Governor
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before an election, over the governor's veto. The legislature also undertook investigations into corruption among former Democratic officials, who were revealed to have sold pardons and accepted bribes and kickbacks from construction companies.
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Werts was nominated for Governor in 1892 on the first ballot of the Democratic convention with Abbett's support, beating out Edward C. Young and Job Lippincott.
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Although Morristown was largely Republican at the time, Werts was elected recorder in 1883. In 1886, he was elected both mayor and Senator for Morris County.
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Werts left office in 1896 after the election of John W. Griggs, the first Republican governor since 1869. He left a budget surplus of almost $ 1 million.
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George T. Werts of New Jersey, one of the best-known Democratic politicians in that State, died yesterday of pneumonia at his home, 275 Union Street, ...
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on the Hudson County circuit of the New Jersey Supreme Court, in order to prevent Werts from obstructing his campaign for the United States Senate.
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In 1872, Werts married Emma Stelle. They had two daughters and she served as an important political and social advisor during his career.
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He died on January 17, 1910, at age 63. At that point, he was the most recent Democratic Governor of New Jersey. He was buried in
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easily won the state, and Werts was elected governor, albeit with a margin almost half that of Cleveland's.
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His term in Governor coincided with the precipitous decline of the New Jersey Democratic Party amid the
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After leaving office in 1896, Werts retired to Jersey City and resumed the practice of law.
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County. This announcement will occasion surprise wherever it becomes known.
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voted for the Republican nominee for President once before that point
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In February 1892, Abbett appointed Werts to fill the vacant seat of
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on September 10, 2008 – via New Jersey State Library.
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Burials at Evergreen Cemetery (Morristown, New Jersey)
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In the general election, he faced U.S. Representative
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to study law with his uncle, Jacob Vanatta, a former
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George Theodore Werts was born on March 24, 1846, in
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Dead Governors of New Jersey bio for George T. Werts
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Index


Governor of New Jersey
Leon Abbett
John W. Griggs
New Jersey Senate
George H. Large
Henry M. Nevius
New Jersey Senate
Morris County
Mayor of Morristown, New Jersey
George T. Cobb
Hackettstown, New Jersey
Jersey City, New Jersey
Democratic

Democratic Party
governor of New Jersey
Panic of 1893
growing ethnoreligious divisions
Palisades Interstate Park Commission
New Jersey Palisades
Hackettstown, New Jersey
Morristown, New Jersey
Attorney General of New Jersey
Leon Abbett
Manning M. Knapp
1892 New Jersey gubernatorial election
John Kean
Benjamin Harrison
voted for the Republican nominee for President once before that point

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