Henry P. McNamara (December 9, 1934 – August 27, 2018) was an American
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politician, who served in the
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from 1990 to 1991. He was also a member of the Senate Environment Committee and the Transportation Committee.
Biography
He was born in
Passaic, New Jersey
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in
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. Accessed September 19, 2011. Before entering the Senate, McNamara spent six years in the New Jersey National Guard. Senator McNamara also spent a year as Mayor of Wyckoff in 1979, and served as
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Dennis McNerney
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in the general election.
McNamara decided against running for re-election in 2007 and announced he would step down at the end of his term in 2008.
McNamara sponsored New Jersey's open space trust fund, wrote the law to clean up underground storage tanks, re-wrote the laws governing toxic waste cleanup and led the way for a Brownfields law – a plan to get private investors to clean up polluted industrial sites and make those sites clean and useful again.
He died on August 27, 2018, in Wyckoff, New Jersey at age 83.
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and two members in the New Jersey General Assembly. At the end of McNamara's term, the other representatives from the 40th Legislative District were:
*Assemblyman
David C. Russo
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, and
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Kevin J. O'Toole
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