119th Delaware General Assembly
# 119th Delaware General Assembly

The 119th 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 1 and terms began in Dover on the first Tuesday in January. This date was January 8, 1957, which was two weeks before the beginning of the fifth administrative year of Governor J. Caleb Boggs and the first administrative year of David P. Buckson of Lieutenant Governor.

Currently the distribution of the Senate Assembly seats was made to seven senators for New Castle County and for five senators to each Kent and Sussex counties. Likewise the current distribution of the House Assembly seats was made to fifteen representatives for New Castle County and for ten representatives each to Kent and Sussex counties. The actual population changes of the county did not directly affect the number of senators or representatives at this time.

In the 119th Delaware General Assembly session both chambers had a Democratic majority.

## Leadership

### Senate

* Lemuel Hickman, Sussex County, Democratic

### House of Representatives

* Harry E. Mayhew, Kent County, Democratic

## Members

### Senate

About half of the State Senators were elected every two years for a four-year term. They were from a district in a specific county, with the number of districts determined by the state constitution, not the size of the population.

| New Castle County 1. Eugene Lammot 2. John B. Reilly, Sr. 3. Elwood F. Melson, Jr. 4. Wilmer F. Williams 5. Calvin R. McCullough 6. Jacob E. Correll 7. Clifford Pryor | Kent County 1. William B. Behen 2. Allen J. Cook 3. S. Warthman Harrison 4. Peter Nechay 5. William C. Paradee Jester A. Gray | Sussex County 1. Walter J. Hoey 2. Earle M. Tull 3. Curtis W. Steen 4. Lemuel Hickman 5. Thomas L. Johnson |
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### House of Representatives

All the State Representatives were elected every two years for a two-year term. They were from a district in a specific county, with the number of districts determined by the state constitution, not the size of the population.

| New Castle County 1. Paul F. Livingston 2. James H. Snowden 3. Harry G. Lawson 4. Paul E. Shockley 5. Edward J. Hussey, Jr. 6. T. Lees Bartleson 7. Harry H. Lambert 8. Margaret R. Manning 9. Henry H. Wolf 10. James R. Quigley 11. William H. Carpenter 12. Henry E. Snedeker 13. Sherman W. Tribbitt 14. Edgar Alexander 15. Charles R. Pryor | Kent County 1. Charles C. King 2. George Ehinger 3. H. Clifford Clark 4. Nelson Massey 5. Charles F. Richards, Sr. 6. Elmer L. Betts 7. Henry B. Appleford 8. Clifford M. Simpler 9. George W. Cain 10. Harry E. Mayhew | Sussex County 1. John Keller 2. Edgar English 3. Norman A. Eskridge 4. Horace W. Mills 5. Harry G. McAllister 6. Charles P. West 7. Lester M. Kaufman 8. Joseph B. Walls 9. Harvey B. Spicer 10. Arthur R. Reed |
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