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HENDRICKSON, Robert Clymer, (1898 - 1964) Senate Years of Service: 1949-1955 Party: Republican HENDRICKSON, Robert Clymer, a Senator from New Jersey; born in Woodbury, Gloucester County, N.J., August 12, 1898; attended public schools; during the First World War enlisted in the United States Army in 1918 and served overseas; graduated from Temple University Law School, Philadelphia, Pa., in 1922, admitted to the New Jersey bar, and commenced practice in Woodbury, N.J.; county supervisor 1929-1934; city solicitor of Woodbury 1931; State senator 1934-1940, serving as president of the senate in 1939; unsuccessful Republican nominee for Governor in 1940; State treasurer 1942-1948; member of board of managers, Council of State Governments, in 1940 and chairman in 1941; vice chairman of Commission on Delaware River Basin 1936-1951; during the Second World War enlisted in 1943, commissioned a major, served with the American Military Government in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1944, and separated from the service in 1946; called back into active duty in 1951; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1948, and served from January 3, 1949, to January 2, 1955; was not a candidate for renomination in 1954; appointed Ambassador to New Zealand by President Dwight Eisenhower 1955-1956; lawyer; was a resident of Woodbury, N.J., until his death December 7, 1964; interment in Eglington Cemetery, Clarksboro, N.J. Source: Biographical directory of the United States Congress [Submitted by Kim Paterson]
PICTON, John Moore White PICTON, John Moore White, physician and educator: b. Woodbury, N. J., Nov. 17, 1804; d. New Orleans, La., Oct. 28, 1858. He was the son of Thomas Picton, chaplain and professor of geography, history and ethics at West Point. He was graduated at West Point in 1824, and assigned to the Second artillery, but resigned in 1832, and the same year was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania. He settled in New Orleans, and practiced for thirty-two years. He won a great reputation as a surgeon, and for many years was the house-surgeon of the Charity Hospital. He was president of the medical department of the University of Louisiana, and in 1856 founded the New Orleans School of Medicine, in which he was professor of obstetrics from 1856 to 1858. His cousin, Thomas Picton, was a well-known journalist in New York. [Source: THE SOUTH in the Building of the Nation Volume XI; Edited by James Curtis Ballagh, Walter Lynwood Fleming & Southern Historical Publication Society; Publ. 1909; Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack]
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