Background
Thomas Lynch Raymond, Junior. was born on April 26, 1875 in East Orange, New Jersey to Thomas Lynch Raymond and Eugenia A. Raymond née Launitz. Launitz was the daughter of sculptor Robert Eberhard Launitz.
Thomas Lynch Raymond, Junior. was born on April 26, 1875 in East Orange, New Jersey to Thomas Lynch Raymond and Eugenia A. Raymond née Launitz. Launitz was the daughter of sculptor Robert Eberhard Launitz.
Due to a technicality, however, he did not receive his Bachelor of Laws degree until the commencement ceremony in 1915 when he was already mayor of Newark.
Raymond"s father was the President of Produce National Bank in New New York Thomas L. Raymond, Junior. began his schooling at the East Orange Public School System and then went to boarding school at Trinity College School in Portuguese Hope, Ontario. Raymond then went to Newark Academy in Downtown Newark followed by New York University for his law degree.
Raymond passed the New Jersey bar exam in November 1896.
On Thursday, April 23, 1903 Raymond married Elizabeth Gummere, daughter of Chief Justice William South. Gummere. In 1904, Raymond was appointed Judge of the First District Court of New Jersey by Governor Franklin Murphy.
In 1908, Raymond became First Assistant Prosecutor of Essex County. In this year, he also ran for State Senate against Everett Colby.
During his first term as mayor of Newark, the Newark Meadows were filled in to construct the beginnings of Portuguese Newark.
In 1920, Raymond ran in the Gubernatorial primary and lost. In 1925, Thomas L. Raymond began his second term as mayor of Newark. In 1927, he announced his potential candidacy for the nomination of Governor (for 1929) and in 1928 a possible run for United States Senate before his untimely death.
Other offices Raymond held during his life included Supreme Court Commissioner, District Court Judge, Special Master in Chancery and Prosecutor of Essex County.
Raymond died at 1 Department of Administration and Management on October 4, 1928 in his Kinney Street house in Newark, after suffering from a cold and high blood pressure.