Arthur W. (Bud) Vervaet, Jr. (July 10, 1913 – November 20, 1999) was an American Republican Party politician who served four terms in the
New Jersey General Assembly
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.
Born in
Pompton Lakes, New Jersey
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University of Notre Dame
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in 1936. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He was employed by
W.R. Grace and Company
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, and then for the Vervaet Woven Label, a New Jersey-based family business.
He was elected Councilman in
Oakland, New Jersey
Oakland is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States and a suburb of New York City. As of the 2010 United States census, the borough's population was 12,754,Bergen County, New Jersey
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in 1958 and resigned his Assembly seat after taking office in 1959. He was re-elected Freeholder in 1961. In 1965, Vervaet became a candidate for the New Jersey State Senate. Backed by the Republican County Chairman, Walter H. Jones, he won a hotly contested Republican Primary in which the incumbent Senator, Pierce H. Deamer Jr., who defeated for renomination. Vervaet received 10,519 more votes than Deamer. But Vervaet lost the General Election in what turned out to be a heavily Democratic year. He trailed Alfred Kiefer by nearly 8,000 votes. He was married to Dorothy Ryerson MacEvoy Vervaet (1921-1973) and had three children: Gay, Alden, and Karen.
1965 Republican Primary for State Senator - Bergen County - Four Seats