Everett Colby
Full name: Everett J. Colby
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| Bio | He was an American banker and politician who represented Essex County, New Jersey in the New Jersey Assembly and the New Jersey Senate from 1906 to 1909. He developed a record as a reformist and opponent of corporations and machine politics, often drawing him into conflict with the leaders of his own Republican Party. In 1913, he ran as the Progressive Party nominee for Governor of New Jersey. He was the second child and son of Charles Lewis Colby and Anna Sims Augustus Knowlton. His father, Charles L. Colby, was the Vice President (and later President) of the Wisconsin Central Railroad. His older brother was Howard A. Colby. Colby attended the Browning School in New York City, where his classmates included John D. Rockefeller Jr., Percy Rockefeller, and Harold Fowler McCormick. His teacher J.A. Browning said that Colby was a good sportsman but a poor scholar, who had great difficulty concentrating or reading but enjoyed woodwork. Colby graduated from Brown University in 1897, again alongside John D. Rockefeller Jr. He was still an avid sportsman and played tennis, golf, baseball, and football. He was football captain in his senior year. He was the member of the Pioneer Tennis Club in New York. He was enlisted on January 25, 1899, in Troop 3, Squadron A, NYNG, New York City. He saw field service with Squadron A during the Croton Dan Strike, August 1900. He was discharged from Squadron A in, October 2, 1902. In the WWI, he was enlisted in US Army, September 1918, date of discharged unknown. In 1898, Colby's father died, and he made a tour of the world. He then studied law and played polo. He married and settled in Llewellyn Park, Orange, New Jersey. He became a Wall Street broker and entered politics. His father had campaigned in Wisconsin as a railroad man and Everett had become convinced, from an early age, that he would one day become a politician. With this end in mind, he had studied law and joined the debating society in college. He openly acknowledged that he enjoyed the showmanship of politics and was at first unsure of the course his political career would take. He simply wanted to go into politics–not to accomplish anything in particular. At first he served in minor positions, assisting other politicians, and over time he developed his own political consciousness. Colby became convinced that the American political system had become perverted from a representative democracy to a plutocratic tyranny. He had been advised to gain experience by joining forces with Major Carl Lentz, the chairman of the Republican County Committee of Essex County. Lentz allowed him to be the introductory speaker at some meetings and Colby gained experience in giving speeches. He then transferred to the staff of Governor Voorhees. Voorhees appointed him a Commissioner on the State Board of Education. Colby worried that his own desultory education might make him unfit for the position but he did very well and Lentz made him chairman of the executive committee of the Republican organization of West Orange in 1902. The next year, Lentz encouraged Colby to run for state senator for Essex. When Colby pointed out that he was under the constitutional age for the senate, Lentz offered to "fix the Manual" where the statistics of legislators were kept. Colby refused but agreed to nomination for the State Assembly and was elected Assemblyman from Essex. Colby married Edith Hyde of Plainfield, New Jersey, in 1903. Four of their children survived him. A resident of West Orange, New Jersey, he died on June 19, 1943, in Montclair, New Jersey. He had been suffering from a heart condition for several weeks. He was laid to rest at Woodlawn cemetery in Bronx, New York. |
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