Notes for: Samuel Louis Bodine
Bridget Bodine, his great-grandaughter, says he was a senator in New Jersey. Besides Samuel, they had two or three still-born children as well.
I found this at PoliticalGraveyard.com:
Bodine, Samuel L. of Flemington, Hunterdon County, N.J. Republican. Member of New Jersey state senate from Hunterdon County, 1944-53; delegate to Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1952. Still living as of 1953.
I suppose it applies to this Samuel Bodine, but I am guessing.
I received other information that Samuel's birth day was January 22, 1900 instead of 1899. No source was given. This info also said Samuel was educated at LaFayette College. His occupation was a lumber merchant. He resided in Flemington, New Jersey.
From Ronny Bodine:
On 12 Sept 1918, Samuel Louis Bodine registered for the World War I draft in Flemington, Hunterdon County. He reported he was a student at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa. and that his nearest kin was his mother, Mrs. Nellie Bodine of Flemington. The marriage of Samuel Louis Bodine to Miss Ida Rittenhouse Stryker, daughter of Mrs. Peter Quick Stryker, of Flemington, at the Primitive Baptist Meeting House in Locktown, was reported in the Trenton Evening Times of 7 July 1932.
He was awarded a B.S. degree from Lafayette College in 1920. After graduation he joined his father's lumber company. Bodine served as mayor of Flemington from 1928 to 1936 and went on to serve on the Hunterdon County Board of Chosen Freeholders from 1937 to 1942. In 1943 he was elected to the New Jersey Senate, where he served until 1953. In the Senate he was majority leader for one year and served another as Senate President and acting Governor. In April 1953 Bodine was selected as Chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee. A week prior to his death he suffered a mild heart attack, appeared to be doing well, then suddenly suffered a convulsive seizure and died quickly. Samuel and Ida Bodine were buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Flemington, Hunterdon County. See the Trenton Evening Times of 15 Sept 1958 for his political obituary.
Obituary, Trenton Times (Trenton, N.J.) of 19 Nov 1979.
FLEMINGTON--Mrs. Ida S. Bodine, 73, of the Flemington Arms Apartments, a former school teacher, died Sunday in the Hunterdon Medical Center, Flemington. Mrs. Bodine, a wife of the late Samuel L. Bodine, a former state senator who died in 1958, had taught school at the Westfield Elementary School. She was a native of Forty Fort, Pa., and had lived in Flemington most of her life. She was a graduate of Trenton Normal School. From 1950 to 1964, she was a member of the Board of Managers of Clinton Farms. She was also chairman of the Hunterdon Red Cross during World War II. She was also a former member of the Flemington Women's Club. Surviving are a son, Samuel A. of Brielle; two sisters, Mrs. John F. Schenk and Mrs. Thomas Darby, both of Flemington, and two grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Friday at 11 a.m. at the Holcombe-Fisher Funeral Home, 147 Main St., Flemington. Burial will be in Prospect Hill Cemetery. There will be no calling hours.