Richard R. Stout (September 21, 1912 – October 16, 1986) was an American politician who served in the

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from 1952 to 1974. Born in the Ocean Grove section of

Neptune Township, New Jersey Neptune Township is a township in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the township's population was 28,061, an increase of 126 from the 2010 census enumeration of 27,935, in turn an increase of 245 ( ...

, Stout attended

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, and Newark Law School before becoming an attorney. He had also served in the

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during

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from 1940 to 1946. Stout first ran for the Senate in 1951 against incumbent

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Senator J. Stanley Herbert with the support of the Monmouth County Republican Organization. He won the primary and subsequently the general election and represented the entire county from 1952 to 1966. During the 1958 session, he served as Senate President. After the 1965 elections which reorganized the Senate districts, he was elected

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to the 5th district encompassing all of Monmouth and

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counties. In the 1967 and 1971 elections, he was elected at-large to the 5th district, only encompassing Monmouth County. In the 1973 elections, Stout ran for reelection from the new 10th district comprising the southern

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communities of Monmouth County. He lost to Herbert J. Buehler by 10 points. He died of

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on October 16, 1986, in

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at age 74.

References

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