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Sherman W. Tribbitt

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Tribbitt inherited the same state financial picture that forced his predecessor from office. In this time of high inflation there was constant pressure to raise salaries, particularly for teachers. Delaware's income tax rates were already among the highest in the nation and the solution was not
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and daughter died in a car crash which injured Biden's sons. Biden contemplating on resigning his Senate seat, but decided to stay in the Senate up until his election as vice president 36 years later.
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Patiently planning a political recovery, Tribbitt was elected again to the Delaware House of Representatives in 1970 and was immediately elected minority leader for the 1971–72 session. When Governor
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wanted to serve two terms, Tribbitt had no choice but to run for a second term himself. Like Terry, he was narrowly defeated in the 1968 Republican landslide by
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stumbled over the state's finances, Tribbitt had another opportunity for the governorship and was elected governor in 1972, defeating Peterson. (51%-48%)
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obvious. There was an effort to levy a large tax on the one oil refinery in the state, but that was derailed when the owner,
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Following World War II, he and his father-in-law operated the Odessa Supply Company in Odessa, Delaware, where they lived.
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Sherman Tribbitt died on August 14, 2010, at the age of 87, a week after a severe fall. He had suffered from
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and briefly worked at the Security Trust Company in Wilmington. During World War II he served in the
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Tribbitt made another bid for governor in 1984, losing the Democratic primary to former
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was elected to the Senate in The same year Tribbitt was elected. On December 18, 1972,
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Tribbitt nearly made an appointment to the U.S. Senate. Future president
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Tribbitt took other steps to raise revenue, including beginning the
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Democratic Party members of the Delaware House of Representatives
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In 1956, Tribbitt was elected to the first of four terms in the
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and the Diamond Group consulting firm. He relocated to
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Governor of Delaware
Eugene Bookhammer
Russell W. Peterson
Pete du Pont
Lieutenant Governor of Delaware
Charles L. Terry, Jr.
Eugene Lammot
Eugene Bookhammer
Delaware House of Representatives
Denton, Maryland
Milford, Delaware
Democratic
Odessa
Delaware
Alma mater
Beacom College
Merchant
Odessa
New Castle County, Delaware
World War II
Democratic Party
Delaware General Assembly
17th lieutenant governor of Delaware
67th governor of Delaware
Denton, Maryland
Beacom College
Wilmington, Delaware
United States Navy
USS Frost

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