Edward Everett Grosscup | |
Office: | Treasurer of the State of New Jersey |
Term Start: | 1913 |
Term End: | 1916 |
Governor: | Woodrow Wilson |
Predecessor: | Daniel Spader Voorhees |
Successor: | William T. Read |
Birth Date: | 2 August 1860 |
Birth Place: | Bridgeton, New Jersey |
Death Place: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Edward Everett Grosscup (August 2, 1860 – December 16, 1933) was chairman of the New Jersey Democratic State Committee from 1911 to 1919 and Treasurer of the State of New Jersey from 1913 to 1915.[1] In 1916 he became the New Jersey state purchasing agent.
He was born on August 2, 1860, in Bridgeton, New Jersey, to Charles Christopher Grosscup and Anna Dare Hires.[2]
He married Sarah E. Finlaw (1858–1884) on October 19, 1881, in Camden, New Jersey, and had as their child, Walter Truman Grosscup (1883–1950).[3]
After the death of his first wife he married Anna Josephine Swaney (1861–1907) on July 10, 1885, in Camden and had as their children: George Charles Grosscup (1887–1936), and Ethel Amanda Grosscup (1891–1949).
Grosscup had made an unsuccessful run in Cumberland County for sheriff in 1896, and lost a race for a seat in the New Jersey Senate in 1898 to Edward C. Stokes, a Republican who would later be elected as Governor. He moved to Gloucester County in 1899, settling in Wenonah, later making an unsuccessful run for Congress, opposing Henry Clay Loudenslager.[4]
He was elected Treasurer of the State of New Jersey in 1913 replacing Daniel Spader Voorhees.[1] He married for a third time, Florence Steele (born 1895) on June 17, 1914.[5]
He became the state purchasing agent for New Jersey on March 21, 1916.[2]
He died on December 16, 1933, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at age 73.