Clarence Edward Case was the acting Republican

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 Governor of New Jersey

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 in 1920, succeeding William Nelson Runyon

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William Nelson Runyon was a Republican who served as Acting Governor of New Jersey from 1919 to 1920.Runyon was born in Plainfield, New Jersey. He was a lawyer, then a member of New Jersey General Assembly from Union County, New Jersey from 1915 to 1917. Runyon served in the New Jersey Senate...

.

Case graduated from Rutgers University

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 in and was awarded a LL.B.

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 degree from New York Law School

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 in 1902. He practiced as a lawyer, and was clerk of the New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee from 1908 to 1910. From 1918 to 1929, he was a member of the New Jersey Senate

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 representing Somerset County

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. As Senate President he served as Acting Governor from January 13, 1920 until January 20, 1920, in the week between the end of the term of William Nelson Runyon

William Nelson Runyon

William Nelson Runyon was a Republican who served as Acting Governor of New Jersey from 1919 to 1920.Runyon was born in Plainfield, New Jersey. He was a lawyer, then a member of New Jersey General Assembly from Union County, New Jersey from 1915 to 1917. Runyon served in the New Jersey Senate...

, the preceding Acting Governor, and the start of Edward I. Edwards' term as Governor. Case served on the New Jersey Supreme Court

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 from 1929 to 1952, and was the Chief Justice

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 from 1946 to 1948.

Case died on September 3, 1961, in Somerville, New Jersey

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, where he resided after retiring.

His nephew, Clifford P. Case

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Clifford Philip Case was an American lawyer and Republican Party politician who represented in the United States House of Representatives and the State of New Jersey in the United States Senate .-Biography:Clifford P. Case was born in Franklin Park in Somerset County, New Jersey...

 represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives

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 (1945–1953) and United States Senate

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 (1955–1979).

External links

• New Jersey Governor Clarence Edwards Case, National Governors Association
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• Clarence Edward Case at The Political Graveyard
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