The 146th session of the New Jersey Legislature opened at Trenton on
January 10. The Senate consisted of 16 Republicans and 5 Democrats; the
Assembly of 45 Republicans and 15 Democrats.
There are two women in the Legislature, Mrs. Catherine Brown, Democrat,
of Hudson county, and Mrs. Margaret B. Laird, Republican, who was
reëlected from Essex county.
Senator William B. Mackay, of Bergen county was elected President of the
Senate; and Assemblyman T. Harry Rowland, of Camden, Speaker of the
House of Assembly.