Frank Costello

March 6, 2008 - 11:38am

Elmer Wene and Frank Osmers

A former chicken farmer and radio station owner from Vineland, Elmer Wene was appointed to the State Board of Agriculture by Democratic Governor George Silzer in 1925 and served their for nine years. He was elected to Congress in 1936, unseating twelve-term Republican Congressman Isaac Bacharach, partly on the coattails of Franklin Roosevelt's re-election victory against Alfred Landon.

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