Elias Bertram Mott (March 11, 1879 – September 23, 1961) was an American

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politician who served as chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee and as

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for more than 50 years.

Biography

Mott was born in 1879 in

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to Elias Briant and Lauretta W. Mott. He attended public schools in Rockaway Township, before going on to Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1896. He studied law privately and was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1901.Myers, William Starr. ''The Story of New Jersey'' (1945). Reprinted a
''Prominent Families of New Jersey''
(Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000). In 1897 Mott first worked as an aide to his father, Elias B. Mott, who was Morris

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at the time. He was appointed deputy county clerk the following year, and would be elected as county clerk in 1908, a position he would hold until his death in 1961."E. Bertram Mott, an Aide in Jersey"
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'', September 25, 1961. Accessed March 29, 2008. In 1922 he was elected a member of the New Jersey Republican State Committee. He became chairman of the State Committee in 1927, succeeding former

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, who resigned to run for

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."Mott is Elected to Succeed Stokes"
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'', September 28, 1927. Accessed March 29, 2008. He served in the position for seven years. Mott died in 1961 at

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at the age of 82.

References

External links

Biographical information for E. Bertram Mott
from

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