{{Short description|American politician (1860–1942)}} {{other people||Edward Stokes (disambiguation)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2017}} {{Infobox officeholder |name= Edward C. Stokes |image= Ex-Gov. E.C. Stokes (...), 2-17-23 LCCN2016847236 (cropped).jpg |caption=Stokes in 1923 |order1=32nd |office1= Governor of New Jersey |term_start1= January 17, 1905 |term_end1= January 21, 1908 |predecessor1= Franklin Murphy |successor1= John Franklin Fort |office2= Member of the New Jersey Senate<bR>from Cumberland County |term2= 1893–1903 |predecessor2 = Seaman R. Fowler |successor2 = Bloomfield Minch |office3= Member of the New Jersey General Assembly |term3= 1891 |spouse= |birth_name= Edward Casper Stokes |birth_date= {{birth date|1860|12|22}} |birth_place= Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |death_date= {{death date and age|1942|11|4|1860|12|22}} |death_place= Trenton, New Jersey |party= Republican }} '''Edward Casper Stokes''' (December 22, 1860{{spnd}}November 4, 1942) was an American Republican Party politician, who served as the 32nd governor of New Jersey, from 1905 to 1908.
==Biography== Stokes was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1860. He attended the Friends School in Rhode Island, and graduated from Brown University in 1883.
Stokes was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly in 1891, and was a member of the New Jersey Senate from Cumberland County between 1893 and 1901. He was the Governor between 1905 and 1908.
Stokes made his first attempt at the United States Senate in 1902 after the death of William Joyce Sewell, but fell short in voting by the Republican caucus, losing out to John F. Dryden.
Stokes won a narrow victory in the 1910 Republican primary for United States Senate, but two years before the direct election of Senators, Democrats controlled the legislature and Stokes was defeated. He was the Republican nominee for governor in 1913, but lost to James F. Fielder. From 1919 to 1927, he was the Chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee. Stokes ran for the U.S. Senate in 1928, but finished second in the Republican primary behind Hamilton Fish Kean.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/assets/pdf/election-results/1920-1970//1928-primary-election.pdf|title=Results of the Primary Election May 15th, 1928|author=Secretary of the State of New Jersey|access-date=18 Aug 2021}}</ref> He chaired the state's GOP general election campaign that year.
Stokes was the President of Mechanics National Bank in Trenton and was President of the New Jersey Bankers Association. He lost much of his own money in the stock market crash, and in 1939 the New Jersey Legislature voted to give him a $2,500-a-year pension. Stokes turned the money down and instead took a state job advising New Jersey's public information office.
Stokes died November 4, 1942, aged 81. He is buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Millville, New Jersey.
==See also== *List of governors of New Jersey
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==External links== *{{Commons category-inline}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060312034912/http://www.njstatelib.org/NJ_Information/Digital_Collections/Governors_of_New_Jersey/GSTOK.pdf Biography of Edward Casper Stokes (PDF)], New Jersey State Library *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070930040832/http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=a2e604e4964e9010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD&vgnextchannel=e449a0ca9e3f1010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD New Jersey Edward Casper Stokes], National Governors Association *{{Find a Grave|7630093}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060305032622/http://www.co.cumberland.nj.us/facts/history/people_century/viewpeople.asp?id=10 Cumberland County: Our People of the Century]
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