Arthur Vervaet

Education

He attended Butler High School and graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1936.

Career

He served in the United States. Army during World World War World War II He was employed by West.R. Grace and Company, and then for the Vervaet Woven Label, a New Jersey-based family business. He was elected Councilman in Oakland, New Jersey in 1950, and served as Mayor of Oakland from 1952 to 1953. He was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly in 1951, and was re-elected in 1953, 1955 and 1957.

He was elected to the Bergen County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders in 1958 and resigned his Assembly seat after taking office in 1959.

He was re-elected Freeholder in 1961. In 1965, Vervaet became a candidate for the New Jersey State Senate.

Vervaet received 10,519 more votes than Deamer. But Vervaet lost the General Election in what turned out to be a heavily Democratic year.

He trailed Alfred Kiefer by nearly 8,000 votes.

Achievements

• Backed by the Republican County Chairman, Walter H. Jones, he won a hotly contested Republican Primary in which the incumbent Senator, Pierce H. Deamer, who defeated for renomination.