141st Delaware General Assembly

141st Delaware General Assembly
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Overview
Legislative body	Delaware General Assembly
Term	January 2, 2001 (2001-01-02) – January 7, 2003 (2003-01-07)

The 141st 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 1st and terms began in Dover on the first Tuesday in January. This date was January 2, 2001, which was two weeks before the beginning of the first administrative year of Democratic Governor Ruth Ann Minner from Kent County and Democratic Lieutenant Governor John Carney from New Castle County.

Currently the distribution of seats for both houses was based on the interpretation of the federal 1990 census. It resulted from a large number of memberships in the New Castle County area and ruling that the election districts would abandon county lines for their boundaries, but would design whatever district boundaries that would accomplish such population equals.

In the 141st Delaware General Assembly session the Senate had a Democratic majority and the House had a Republican majority.

Party summary

Senate Democratic (D): 13 (majority) Republican (R): 8 Total members: 21

House of Representatives Democratic (D): 15 Republican (R): 26 (majority) Total members: 41

Leadership

Senate Lieutenant Governor (President of the Senate): John Carney, Democratic of New Castle County. President pro tempore of the Senate: Thurman G. Adams, Democratic of Sussex County.

House of Representatives Speaker of the House Terry R. Spence, Republican of New Castle County.

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 1. Harris McDowell III (D) 2. Margaret R. Henry (D) 3. Robert I. Marshall (D) 4. Dallas Winslow (R) 5. Catherine L. Cloutier (R) 6. Liane M. Sorenson (R) 7. Patricia M. Blevins (D)

New Castle County 8. David P. Sokola (D) 9. Thomas B. Sharp (D) 10. Steven H. Amick (R) 11. Anthony J. DeLuca (D) 12. Dorinda A. Connor (R) 13. David B. McBride (D) 14. James T. Vaughn (D)

Kent County 15. Nancy W. Cook (D) 16. Colin R. J. Bonini (R) 17. John C. Still III (R) 18. F. Gary Simpson (R) Sussex County 19. Thurman G. Adams Jr. (D) 20. George H. Bunting Jr. (D) 21. Robert L. Venables Sr. (D)

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. Dennis P. Williams (D) 2. Al O. Plant (D) 3. Arthur L. Scott (D) 4. Joseph G. DiPinto (R) 5. Helene M. Keeley (D) 6. David H. Ennis (R) 7. Wayne A. Smith (R) 8. David D. Brady (D) 9. Richard C. Cathcart (R) 10. Robert J. Valihura Jr. (R) 11. Gregory F. Lavelle (R) 12. Deborah H. Capano (R) 13. John F. Van Sant III (D) 14. Richard A. DiLiberto (D)

New Castle County 15. Bruce C. Reynolds (R) 16. William I. Houghton (D) 17. Michael P. Mulrooney (D) 18. Terry R. Spence (R) 19. Robert F. Gilligan (D) 20. Roger P. Roy (R) 21. Pamela S. Maier (R) 22. Joseph E. Miro (R) 23. Timothy U. Boulden (R) 24. William A. Oberle Jr. (R) 25. Stephanie A. Ulbrich (R) 26. John Viola (D) 27. Vincent A. Lofink (R)

Kent County 28: Bruce C. Ennis (D) 29. Pamela J. Thornburg (R) 30. C. Robert Quillen (R) 31. Nancy H. Wagner (R) 32. Donna D. Stone (R) 33. G. Wallace Caulk Jr. (R) 34. Gerald A. Buckworth (R) Sussex County 35. J. Benjamin Ewing (R) 36. V. George Carey (R) 37. John R. Schroeder (D) 38. Shirley A. Price (D) 39. Evelyn K. Fallon (R) 40. Clifford G. Lee (R) 41. Charles P. West (D)

References

• The 2001-2002 Legislative Roster, Delaware State Chamber of Commerce, 2001

Places with more information

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