William J. Bate, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

William J. Bate

American politician

Date of Birth: 10-Apr-1934

Date of Death: 29-Jan-2011

Profession: judge, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About William J. Bate

  • William J.
  • Bate (April 10, 1934 – January 29, 2011) was an American Democratic Party politician who served as a state senator, assemblyman, and judge. Bate was born April 10, 1934, in Passaic, New Jersey, the son of William Warren Bate and Winifred Irene King Bate.
  • He graduated from Public School No.
  • 1 in Clifton, St.
  • Peter's Prep in Jersey City in 1951, St.
  • Peter's College in Jersey City in 1955, and Georgetown University Law School in 1958.
  • (Bate later enrolled and earned a Master's Degree in American Political Systems from Rutgers University while serving in the legislature.) He spent six years as a legislative assistant to Congressman Charles Samuel Joelson, a Democrat from New Jersey.
  • He was elected to the Clifton City Council in 1966, and won election to the Passaic County Board of Chosen Freeholders in 1968.
  • He served as Freeholder Director in 1971.In 1971, Bate was elected to the New Jersey State Senate.
  • Passaic County had three Senate seats, all elected at-large, and none of the three Fourteenth District incumbent Republicans sought re-election.
  • Bate finished third, defeating Republican Assemblyman Alfred Fontanella by nearly 8,000 votes.Redistricting for the 1973 elections created single-member Senate districts and put Bate in the same district as another Democratic state senator, Joseph Hirkala.
  • Rather than challenge Hirkala in a primary, Bate instead chose to run for the New Jersey General Assembly and was elected to represent the 34th district.
  • He was re-elected in 1975, 1977 and 1979.Following the 1981 redistricting, Bate was placed in the newly-drawn 34th district, which included parts of Passaic and Essex counties.
  • (Hirkala ran in the Passaic-Bergen 36th district.) He was unopposed for the Democratic nomination, but lost the general election to Passaic County Republican Chairman Joseph Bubba by a 53%-47% margin.Bate was elected Passaic County Surrogate (Probate Court Judge) in 1982, and was re-elected in 1992, 1997, 2002 and 2007.
  • He died in office in 2011.A resident of Clifton, New Jersey, he was married for 48 years to Clara Estrella Bate, a native of the Dominican Republic, and had two sons, William E.
  • Bate and Robert E.
  • Bate.

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