{{Short description|American politician (1932–2021)}} {{Use American English|date=February 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Chester Apy | image = | caption = | office = Member of the New Jersey General Assembly from District 5B | term_start1 = January 11, 1972 | term_end1 = January 8, 1974 | predecessor1 = Joseph Azzolina<br>James M. Coleman | successor1 = ''District abolished'' | term_start2 = January 9, 1968 | term_end2 = January 13, 1970 | predecessor2 = ''District created'' | successor2 = James M. Coleman | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1932|3|8}} | birth_place = Red Bank, New Jersey | death_date = {{Death date and age|2021|5|30|1932|3|8}} | death_place = Red Bank, New Jersey | party = Republican }}
'''Chester Apy''' (March 8, 1932 – May 30, 2021) was an American lawyer and Republican politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from District 5B from 1968 to 1970, and from 1972 to 1974.<ref name=APP1>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/144257650/ |title=Asbury Park Press from Asbury Park, New Jersey on September 26, 1969 · Page 2 |publisher=Newspapers.com |date=1969-09-26 |accessdate=2019-03-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/143107434/ |title=Asbury Park Press from Asbury Park, New Jersey on October 11, 1969 · Page 1 |publisher=Newspapers.com |date=1969-10-11 |accessdate=2019-03-28}}</ref> First elected in 1967 in District 5B with Joseph Azzolina, he did not stand for reelection in 1969.<ref name=APP1/> However, he ran again in 1971, and won a seat in the Assembly again serving another single term alongside Democrat Eugene J. Bedell.
Apy attended grammar school in Little Silver, Peddie School, Sherborne School (as an exchange student), and Princeton University, and earned an LL.B from Columbia University School of Law. A resident of Little Silver, he worked as an attorney and was a partner in a Red Bank law firm.<ref name=LegManual_1972>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=riVMAAAAMAAJ&q=%22sherborne%22 |title=Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey |first=J.A. |last=Fitzgerald |year=1972 |accessdate=April 19, 2020}}</ref>
He died on May 30, 2021, in Red Bank, New Jersey at age 89.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://newjerseyglobe.com/in-memoriam/chester-apy-former-assemblyman-and-victim-of-1960s-redistricting-dies-at-89/|title=Chester Apy, former assemblyman and victim of 1960s redistricting, dies at 89|first=David|last=Wildstein|work=New Jersey Globe|date=25 July 2021|access-date=25 July 2021}}</ref>
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