46 Facts About Everett Colby

Everett Colby 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.

Everett Colby 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.

Everett Colby was born in Milwaukee on December 10,1874.

Everett Colby was still an avid sportsman and played tennis, golf, baseball, and football.

In 1898, Everett Colby's father died, and he made a tour of the world.

Everett Colby married and settled in Llewellyn Park, Orange, New Jersey.

Everett Colby became a Wall Street broker and entered politics.

Everett Colby's 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.

Everett Colby openly acknowledged that he enjoyed the showmanship of politics and was at first unsure of the course his political career would take.

Everett Colby became convinced that the American political system had become perverted from a representative democracy to a plutocratic tyranny.

Everett Colby 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 Everett Colby gained experience in giving speeches.

Everett Colby then transferred to the staff of Governor Voorhees.

The next year, Lentz encouraged Everett Colby to run for state senator for Essex.

When Everett 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.

Everett Colby refused but agreed to nomination for the State Assembly and was elected Assemblyman from Essex.

Everett Colby's session as an assemblyman was a gradual education and disillusionment.

One day, early in the session, Sam Dickinson asked Everett Colby to introduce certain excise bills.

Everett Colby found the proposed taxes dubious and an attempt to take control of Hudson County from the Democratic Party.

Everett Colby went to consult Governor Franklin Murphy and when Murphy pronounced the bills "all right", Everett Colby was reassured.

The party jammed through the excise bills but Everett Colby voted against them, retaining his honor.

Everett Colby continued to make enemies in his own party by voting in opposition to their views on major issues.

Everett Colby failed and Colby convinced Rockefeller that the bill was a bad one.

When both Governor Murphy and Governor Stokes then attempted to convert Everett Colby, this opened the eyes of the young legislator to the fact that his party represented the interests of corporations.

At first Everett Colby supported the bill, but when he was told by his party leaders that the bill was "badly drawn," he changed his position.

Fagan went to Everett Colby and asked him why he didn't have it reported.

In 1905, Everett Colby wanted to run for Speaker of the Assembly but was discouraged by his party leaders.

Everett Colby knew this was untrue because he had pledges from his colleagues.

Everett Colby was summoned to a meeting with Senator Dryden, the president of Prudential Life Insurance Company.

Everett Colby agreed not to run but decided to run as a freelance.

Everett Colby said that he would have to study the subject.

Soon thereafter, Everett Colby was at a dinner and walked over to Tom McCarter afterwards and asked him if he knew about the proposed bill.

Everett Colby clapped his hands together in Colby's face saying that he would not accept anything but perpetual franchises.

Everett Colby said that had he tried to persuade him with reason, he could probably have been swayed but this was eye-opening.

Everett Colby told no one of it except Assembly leader Edward Duffield.

Everett Colby rose and offered a resolution to the effect that it was the sense of the Assembly that perpetual grants of monopolies to corporations should not be made.

Everett Colby was a trustee of his alma mater Brown University from 1905 to 1940.

Everett Colby was a member of the New Jersey board of Education from 1902 to 1904.

Everett Colby was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly from 1903 to 1905, and of the state senate from 1906 to 1909.

Everett Colby was chairman of the executive committee of the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association and of the National World Court Committee.

Everett Colby served in the United States Food Administration in 1917.

Everett Colby was a major in the Officers Reserve Corps in 1918.

When Everett Colby was 15 years old, the city of Everett Colby, Washington, was named after him at an 1890 dinner party at his father's home, as suggested by Henry Hewitt.

Everett Colby married Edith Hyde of Plainfield, New Jersey, in 1903.

Everett Colby had been suffering from a heart condition for several weeks.

Everett Colby was active in a nationwide movement to promote temperance through education rather than by statute, and in 1935 he enlisted the support of Edsel Ford and John D Rockefeller Jr.