title: 113th Delaware General Assembly
text: # 113th Delaware General Assembly
  
  The 113th Delaware General Assembly was a meeting of the legislative branch of the state government, consisting of the Delaware Senate and the Delaware House of Representatives. Elections were held the first Tuesday after November 1 and terms began in Dover on the first Tuesday in January. This date was January 2, 1945, which was two weeks before the beginning of the fifth administrative year of Governor Walter W. Bacon and the first administration of Elbert N. Carvel as Lieutenant Governor.
  
  Currently the distribution of the Senate Assembly seats was made to seven senators for New Castle County and for five senators to each Kent and Sussex counties. Likewise the current distribution of the House Assembly seats was made to fifteen representatives for New Castle County and for ten representatives each to Kent and Sussex counties. The actual population changes of the county did not directly affect the number of senators or representatives at this time.
  
  In the 113th Delaware General Assembly session both chambers had a Republican majority.
  
  ## Leadership
  
  ### Senate
  
  * Harry H. Mulholland, Sussex County, Republican
  
  ### House of Representatives
  
  * Chester V. Townsend, Jr., Sussex County, Republican
  
  ## Members
  
  ### Senate
  
  About half of the State Senators were elected every two years for a four-year term. They were from a district in a specific county, with the number of districts determined by the state constitution, not the size of the population.
  
  | New Castle County 1. James S. Evans 2. James C. McGuigan 3. George P. Edmonds 4. George E. Binder 5. George W. Rhodes 6. John R. Butler 7. Harris B. McDowell, Jr. | Kent County 1. William D. Johnson 2. Samuel Weigle, Jr. 3. Harry H. Jones 4. Fred S. Bailey 5. Robert H. Yerkes | Sussex County 1. Harry H. Mulholland 2. Irvin T. Hastings 3. William H. Ayres 4. Harvey H. Lawson 5. John R. Hitchens |
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  ### House of Representatives
  
  All the State Representatives were elected every two years for a two-year term. They were from a district in a specific county, with the number of districts determined by the state constitution, not the size of the population.
  
  | New Castle County 1. John B. Reilly, Sr. 2. Charles A. Allegretto 3. Ralph S. Keenen 4. Francis Q. Lemon 5. Thomas J. Hanlon 6. Raymond B. Phillips 7. Samuel B. Bird 8. Benjamin E. Hicks 9. Clarence E. McVey 10. James R. Quigley 11. John B. McDaniel 12. Tyson F. Sartin 13. Harvey E. Moore 14. Parris Hutchinson 15. Charles V. Buckson | Kent County 1. H. Lloyd Jones 2. John H. Conrad 3. Andrew L. Everett 4. Howard F. Schweitzer 5. Benjamin F. Johnson 6. Ellwood B. Gruwell 7. Charles F. Fifer 8. Thomas E. Moore 9. Harry E. Legates 10. George A. Swain | Sussex County 1. Arthur Webb 2. Norman H. Scott 3. Roy A. Cannon 4. Dale S. Holt 5. Fred L. Ward 6. William J. Rose 7. Chester V. Townsend, Jr. 8. Lester V. Burton 9. Clarence L. McIlvaine 10. John H. Wilson |
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