Delaware General Assembly Delegations from New Castle County
A table of the members of the Delaware General Assembly from New Castle County and the Governors.
Delaware Senators under the Constitution of 1776
During this period the Upper House of the Delaware General Assembly was known as the Legislative Council and its members were Legislative Councillors. The terms "Senate" and "Senator" came into use with the adoption of the U.S. Constitution of 1787. Legislative Councillors were not the same as and should not to be confused with Privy Councillors, the persons serving on the Delaware Privy Council.
From 1776 to 1792 elections were held on the first day of October of the year noted. Terms for members of the General Assembly began on the twentieth day of October in the same year. If either date fell on a Sunday, the following day was prescribed. They met three times each year, generally in October, February and May. Members of the House of Assembly had a term of one year and members of the Legislative Council had a term of three years. Three State Councilmen and seven State Assemblymen were elected, at large, from each county.
The alternating grey and white boxes indicate the duration of the actual three year Council terms.
| Presidents | Session | 1 | Class 1 Councillors | 2 | Class 2 Councillors | 3 | Class 3 Councillors |
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| John McKinly Thomas McKean |
1st (1776/1777) |
- | Nicholas Van Dyke | - | George Read | - | Richard Cantwell |
| George Read Caesar Rodney |
2nd (1777/1778) |
- | Peter Hyatt | ||||
| Caesar Rodney | 3rd (1778/1779) |
Samuel Patterson | - | ||||
| 4th (1779/1780) |
Richard Cantwell | - | |||||
| 5th (1780/1781) |
- | Thomas McDonough, Sr. | |||||
| John Dickinson | 6th (1781/1782) |
- | Isaac Grantham | ||||
| John Cook | 7th (1782/1783) |
- | George Read | ||||
| Nicholas Van Dyke | 8th (1783/1784) |
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| 9th (1784/1785) |
- | George Craighead | |||||
| 10th (1785/1786) |
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| Thomas Collins | 11th (1786/1787) |
- | Nicholas Van Dyke | ||||
| 12th (1787/1788) |
Thomas McDonough, Sr. | - | George Read, Jr. | ||||
| Jehu Davis | 13th (1788/1789) |
Nicholas Van Dyke | Thomas Kean | - | Gunning Bedford, Sr. | ||
| Joshua Clayton | 14th (1789/1790) |
- | Alexander Porter, Jr. | ||||
| 15th (1790/1791) |
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| 16th (1791/1792) |
Nehemiah Tilton | - | Archibald Alexander | ||||
Delaware Senators under the Constitution of 1792
The State Senate had a term of three years. Three State Senators were elected, at large, from each county.
The alternating grey and white boxes indicate the duration of the actual three year Senate terms.
| Governors | Session | 1 | Class 1 Senators | 2 | Class 2 Senators | 3 | Class 3 Senators |
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| Joshua Clayton | 17th (1793) |
- | Robert Haughey | - | Archibald Alexander | - | John Dickinson |
| 18th (1794) |
- | Isaac Grantham | Thomas Kean | ||||
| 19th (1795) |
John Stockton | - | |||||
| Gunning Bedford, Sr. | 20th (1796) |
Alexander Porter, Jr. | - | John James | |||
| 21st (1797) |
- | Archibald Alexander | |||||
| Daniel Rogers | 22nd (1798) |
Edward Roche | - | ||||
| Richard Bassett | 23rd (1799) |
Isaac Grantham | - | ||||
| 24th (1800) |
- | Peter Brynberg | |||||
| James Sykes, Jr. | 25th (1801) |
John Bird | - | Thomas Fitzgerald | |||
| David Hall | 26th (1802) |
Robert Maxwell | - | ||||
| 27th (1803) |
- | John Way | |||||
| 28th (1804) |
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| Nathaniel Mitchell | 29th (1805) |
- | William Cooch | ||||
| 30th (1806) |
- | George Clark, Jr. | |||||
| 31st (1807) |
- | Thomas Perkins | |||||
| George Truitt | 32nd (1808) |
- | John Merritt | ||||
| 33rd (1809) |
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| 34th (1810) |
- | Andrew Reynolds | |||||
| Joseph Haslet | 35th (1811) |
- | Francis H. Haughey | ||||
| 36th (1812) |
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| 37th (1813) |
- | Samuel H. Black | |||||
| Daniel Rodney | 38th (1814) |
- | Abraham Staats | ||||
| 39th (1815) |
- | Caesar A. Rodney | |||||
| 40th (1816) |
- | Nicholas Van Dyke, Jr. | |||||
| John Clark | 41st (1817) |
- | George Clark, Jr. | ||||
| 42nd (1818) |
- | Andrew Gray | Samuel H. Black | ||||
| 43rd (1819) |
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| Jacob Stout | 44th (1820) |
- | Jacob Vandergrift | ||||
| John Collins | 45th (1821) |
- | Victor du Pont | ||||
| Caleb Rodney | 46th (1822) |
- | Charles Thomas, Jr. | ||||
| Joseph Haslet Charles Thomas, Jr. |
47th (1823) |
- | William Weldon, II | ||||
| Samuel Paynter | 48th (1824) |
- | John Erwin | ||||
| 49th (1825) |
- | Henry Whiteley | |||||
| 50th (1826) |
- | Christopher Vandergrift | |||||
| Charles Polk, Jr. | 51st (1827) |
- | Joseph England | ||||
| 52nd (1828) |
John Harlan | Levi Boulden | - | Thomas Deakyne | |||
| 53rd (1829) |
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| David Hazzard | 54th (1830) |
- | William T. Read | John Caulk | |||
| 55th (1831) |
- | Jacob Alrichs | |||||
| 56th (1832) |
James Booth | - | John Sutton | ||||
Delaware Senators under the Constitution of 1831
The State Senate had a term of four years. Three State Senators were elected, at large, from each county.
The alternating grey and white boxes indicate the duration of the actual four year Senate terms.
| Governors | Session | 1 | Class 1 Senators | 2 | Class 2 Senators | 3 | Class 3 Senators |
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| Caleb P. Bennett | 57th (1833/1834) |
- | James Booth | - | John Sutton | - | Richard H. Bayard |
| Charles Polk, Jr. | 58th (1835/1836) |
- | John D. Dilworth | Thomas W. Handy | - | Archibald Hamilton | |
| Cornelius P. Comegys | 59th (1837/1838) |
- | William Herdman | Christopher Brooks | |||
| 60th (1839/1840) |
- | Abraham Boyce | - | Thomas Deaknye | |||
| William B. Cooper | 61st (1841/1842) |
- | Charles I. du Pont | Andrew S. Naudain | |||
| 62nd (1843/1844) |
- | David McAllister | - | Robert Ocheltree | |||
| Thomas Stockton Joseph Maull William Temple |
63rd (1845/1846) |
- | Mahlon Betts | ||||
| William Tharp | 64th (1847/1848) |
- | Samuel Burnham | - | John D. Turner | ||
| 65th (1849/1850) |
- | James H. Hoffecker | |||||
| William H. H. Ross | 66th (1851/1852) |
- | Bassett Ferguson | - | William Smith | ||
| 67th (1853/1854) |
- | Charles I. du Pont | |||||
| Peter F. Causey | 68th (1855/1856) |
- | Archibald Armstrong | - | Sewell C. Biggs | ||
| 69th (1857/1858) |
- | Abraham Boyce | |||||
| William Burton | 70th (1859/1860) |
- | David W. Gemmell | - | Charles T. Polk | ||
| 71st (1861/1862) |
- | John R. Tatum | |||||
| William Cannon | 72nd (1863/1864) |
- | John P. Belville | - | John F. Williamson | ||
| Gove Saulsbury | 73rd (1865/1866) |
- | Isaac S. Elliott | ||||
| 74th (1867/1868) |
- | Curtis B. Ellison | - | John G. Jackson | |||
| 75th (1869/1870) |
- | Charles Gooding | |||||
| James Ponder | 76th (1871/1872) |
- | Allen V. Lesley | - | Leonard G. Vandegrift | ||
| 77th (1873/1874) |
- | Leander F. Riddle | |||||
| John P. Cochran | 78th (1875/1876) |
- | Henry Davis | - | James H. Ray | ||
| 79th (1877/1878) |
- | Harry Sharpley | |||||
| John W. Hall | 80th (1879/1880) |
- | Joseph W. Cooch | - | Charles H. McWhorter | ||
| 81st (1881/1882) |
- | Edward Betts | |||||
| Charles C. Stockley | 82nd (1883/1884) |
- | Swithin Chandler | - | Alexander B. Cooper | ||
| 83rd (1885/1886) |
- | Charles H. McWhorter | |||||
| Benjamin T. Biggs | 84th (1887/1888) |
- | Calvin W. Crossan | - | Colen Ferguson | ||
| 85th (1889/1890) |
- | John P. Donohoe | |||||
| Robert J. Reynolds | 86th (1891/1892) |
- | James McMullin | - | John Pilling | ||
| 87th (1893/1894) |
- | John C. Pyle | |||||
| Joshua H. Marvil William T. Watson |
88th (1895/1896) |
- | Samuel Alrichs | - | Robert J. Hanby | ||
| Ebe W. Tunnell | 89th (1897/1898) |
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Delaware Senators under the Constitution of 1897 before the 1965 reapportionment
The alternating grey and white boxes indicate the duration of the actual four year Senate terms.
| Governors | Session | 1 | Class 1 Senators | 2 | Class 2 Senators | 3 | Class 3 Senators | 4 | Class 4 Senators | 5 | Class 5 Senators | 6 | Class 6 Senators | 7 | Class 7 Senators |
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| Ebe W. Tunnell | 90th (1899/1900) |
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| John Hunn | 91st (1901/1902) | ||||||||||||||
| 92nd (1903/1904) |
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| Preston Lea | 93rd (1905/1906) | ||||||||||||||
| 94th (1907/1908) |
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| Simeon S. Pennewill | 95th (1909/1910) | ||||||||||||||
| 96th (1911/1912) |
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| Charles R. Miller | 97th (1913/1914) | ||||||||||||||
| 98th (1915/1916) |
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| John G. Townsend, Jr. | 99th (1917/1918) | ||||||||||||||
| 100th (1919/1920) |
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| William D. Denney | 101st (1921/1922) | ||||||||||||||
| 102nd (1923/1924) |
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| Robert P. Robinson | 103rdh (1925/1926) | ||||||||||||||
| 104th (1927/1928) |
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| C. Douglass Buck | 105th (1929/1930) | ||||||||||||||
| 106th (1931/1932) |
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| 107th (1933/1934) | |||||||||||||||
| 108th (1935/1936) |
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| Richard C. McMullen | 109th (1937/1938) | ||||||||||||||
| 110th (1939/1940) |
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| Walter W. Bacon | 111th (1941/1942) | ||||||||||||||
| 112th (1943/1944) |
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| 113th (1945/1946) | |||||||||||||||
| 114th (1947/1948) |
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| Elbert N. Carvel | 115th (1949/1950) | ||||||||||||||
| 116th (1951/1952) |
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| J. Caleb Boggs David P. Buckson |
117th (1953/1954) | ||||||||||||||
| 118th (1955/1956) |
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| 119th (1957/1958) | |||||||||||||||
| 120th (1959/1960) |
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| Elbert N. Carvel | 121st (1961/1962) | ||||||||||||||
| 122nd (1963/1964) |
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References
- Martin, Roger A. (1995). Memoirs of the Senate.