Background
Inge was born in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1900 to George and Kate Ferguson Inge.
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Hutchins Inge
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Education
He graduated from the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy and Howard University College of Medicine.
Career
He was the first African American to serve in the New Jersey Senate. Inge began his medical practice in Newark, New Jersey in 1936. In 1965, at the age of 65, Inge was nominated by the Essex County Democratic organization as a candidate for the State Senate.
All four Democratic candidates were elected to office, in a year when Governor Richard J. Hughes was reelected in a landslide and Democrats took control of both houses of the legislature.
1965 Essex County State Senator General Election Results
During Inge"s tenure in the Senate from 1966 to 1968, he served as the chairman of the Senate Federal and Interstate Relations Committee. He was a supporter of measures to aid education, transportation, and housing.
In 1970 Inge married Dorothy East. Helme and moved to Osterville, Massachusetts on Cape Cod. He continued his medical practice at his residence there until his retirement in 1995.
Inge died on March 28, 2002 at the age of 101 at Saint Luke"s Hospital in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he lived after his wife"s death.
Achievements
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He was director of the Essex Urban League and a founder of the Council of Doers, professional men dedicated to community service. He was one of four Senate candidates on the county slate, after a temporary reapportionment plan awarded Essex (as well as Bergen County) the right to elect four instead of one senators. In 2007, Governor Jon Corzine signed a bill commemorating the achievements of Inge, along with Walter G. Alexander, the first African American to serve in the New Jersey General Assembly.
Membership
He was also a life member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and a member of the American Medical Association.
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Political Party
Democratic party