Herbert C. Conaway Jr. (born January 30, 1963) is an American

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, who has served in the

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since 1998, where he represents the 7th Legislative District. Conaway served in the Assembly as the Majority Whip from 2014 to 2017, and was the Deputy Speaker from 2002 to 2005 and again starting in 2022.

Early life

Conaway was born at St. Francis Medical Center in Trenton on January 30, 1963, to Eva Christine Conaway (née Godard), a nurse at the hospital, and Herb Conaway Sr., a history teacher at

Bordentown Regional High School Bordentown Regional High School is a comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from five communities in northern Burlington County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of ...

. He grew up in Bordentown, attending high school there. Conaway graduated with an A.B. in politics from

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in 1985 after completing a 67-page long senior thesis titled "Black Political Strategy." He then received an

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degree from Jefferson Medical College at

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and was awarded a J.D. from

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.Assemblyman Conaway's legislative web page

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. Accessed January 23, 2022. He is the only member of the legislature to hold both an M.D. degree and a J.D. degree. Conaway later served in the

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Medical Corps from 1992 to 1996, reaching the rank of

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. He served at

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as general medical officer and as assistant director of the primary care clinic.Herb Conaway, M.D. profile
Denison for State Senate / Conaway & Conners for State Assembly. Accessed August 8, 2007. He continues to practice medicine whilst serving in the legislature. He specializes in internal medicine and currently serves as director of the internal medicine clinic at St. Francis Medical Center in Trenton. He formerly worked at

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and had a practice in

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. Formerly a resident of Delanco Township, he now lives in Moorestown.

New Jersey Assembly

Conaway was first elected to the General Assembly from the 7th District in 1997 as the top vote getter. The same election saw his running mate and second-place finisher,

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, be seated then removed due to voting machine issues and replaced in September 1998 by Republican

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. Conners was subsequently elected in a 1998 special election and the two served together from the 7th district from that point until 2011 when Conners resigned. Since late 2011, his Assembly associate from the district was

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, until Singleton was elected to the

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. Since 2018, his Assembly associate has been

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. He served as the Assembly's Deputy Speaker from 2002 to 2005. Calling the proposed bill a "recipe for disaster" that could result in the spread of disease, Conaway opposed legislation proposed by Assemblywoman

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that would give parents the right to exclude their children from

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s, after hearings held in March 2011 by the Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee. In 2019, Conaway supported legislation eliminating religious exemptions from mandatory vaccination requirements for students to be eligible to attend school.

Committee assignments

Committee assignments for the current session are: *Health, Chair *Budget *Military and Veterans' Affairs

District 7

Each of the 40 districts in the New Jersey Legislature has one representative in the

and two members in the

. The representatives from the 7th District for the 2022—23 Legislative Session are: *Senator

(D) *Assemblyman Herb Conaway (D) *Assemblywoman

(D)

Campaign for the United States House of Representatives

Conaway ran for the

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for

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in the 2004 election, losing to

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Electoral history

Assembly

References

External links

Assemblyman Conaway's legislative web page

*''New Jersey Legislature financial disclosure forms''
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New Jersey Voter Information Website 2003
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