Name George Wallhauser, | ||
George Marvin Wallhauser, Jr. (April 4, 1927 – August 7, 2011) was an American Republican Party politician who served as the Chairman of the Essex County Republican Organization and was a candidate for Congress in 1968. He was the son of George M. Wallhauser, who represented New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1959 to 1965.
Biography
A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School, he ran an insurance company and was the Chairman of the East Orange General Hospital for seventeen years. He resided in Maplewood.
In 1968, Wallhauser sought the Republican nomination for Congress in New Jersey's 11th district against three-term Democratic incumbent Joseph Minish. He won the Republican primary over Donald MacArt of East Orange and Jack Hastings Burmeister of Maplewood, 66%-33%-1%). He lost the general election to Minish, 91,496 (66%) to 46,426 (33%). In that campaign, Wallhauser proposed federal subsidies to urban areas to pay police officers and firefighters.
He was the Essex County Republican Chairman from 1971 to 1973. He did not seek re-election after Cahill lost the Republican gubernatorial nomination to conservative Charles Sandman.
Wallhauser served as a Commissioner of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities under Governor William T. Cahill, as Chairman of the Garden State Parkway Authority, and was the Chairman of People for Bateman during the 1977 gubernatorial campaign of Raymond Bateman.