Joseph D. Bedle

Joseph Dorsett Bedle ( born January 5, 1821 in Matawan, New Jersey, † October 21, 1894 in New York City ) was an American politician and 1875-1878 Governor of the State of New Jersey.

Early years and political rise

Joseph Bedle attended the local schools of his home and then studied law. After qualifying as a lawyer, he began in New York City and New Jersey to work in his new profession. Between 1865 and 1875 he was a member of the New Jersey Supreme Court Bedle was a member of the Democratic Party as their candidate, he was elected on November 3, 1874 the governor of his state. He sat down with 54:46 percent of the vote to Republican George A. Halsey by. Already in 1864 he had been a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, on which the future governor of New Jersey, George B. McClellan, was nominated as the presidential candidate of the party.

Governor of New Jersey

Bedle took up his new post as governor on January 19, 1875. In his three years in office a government health committee were ( State Board of Health) and sets up some new orphanages. It was then that a new electoral law was adopted and convened a commission to resolve a border dispute with the neighboring state of New York. Governor Bedles term of office ended on 15 January 1878.

After the end of his governorship he was legally working again. It was only in 1894, shortly before his death, he returned as a member of a commission to revise the State Constitution of New Jersey to the political scene back. Governor Bedle died on 21 October 1894. Together with his wife Althea F. Randolph he had six children.