Preceded by Gary R. Chiusano Spouse(s) Jill Party Republican Party Political party Republican Role Politician | Succeeded by George Graham Name Parker Space Preceded by Harold J. Wirths Children three | |
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Born December 4, 1968 (age 55) ( 1968-12-04 ) Residence Wantage Township, New Jersey, United States | ||
Assemblyman Parker Space and A leaked Recording
F. Parker Space (born December 4, 1968) is an American Republican Party politician, who has served in the New Jersey General Assembly since February 2013, where he represents the 24th Legislative District.
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Space is a farmer and restaurant owner who also owns Space Farms Zoo and Museum in the Beemerville section of Wantage Township in Sussex County, New Jersey. He attended the Sussex County Vocational Technical School and Sussex County Fire Academy. He has served with the Wantage Fire Department as a volunteer firefighter since 1989 and the department's chief 2001-2002. Space served on the township's Land Use Boards (2000-2008), and for two three-year terms on the Wantage Township committee (2004-2009), serving for three years as mayor (2005, 2008-2009), and two years as deputy mayor (2006-2007). He was appointed to the Sussex County Board of Chosen Freeholders in 2010 following the appointment of Harold J. Wirths to head the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Space won a full three-year term in the 2010 general election and was chosen as Freeholder Director in 2013.
He served until his appointment to the General Assembly filling a vacancy left by the resignation of Gary R. Chiusano in 2013. Chiusano was appointed to the vacant position of Sussex County Surrogate, and Space was chosen by a convention called of party delegates from municipalities to fill the vacancy per New Jersey state law. Space received 103 of the 158 delegate votes cast, defeating Bader Qarmout, John Wroblewski, and Mark Quick.
In the Assembly, Space serves on the Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee and the Labor Committee.
Space was criticized for playing Solitaire on the job during a debate on minimum wages.
District 24
As of 2013, the 24th Legislative District covers 36 municipalities in Sussex, Morris and Warren counties in northwestern New Jersey, including: Allamuchy, Andover Borough, Andover Township, Belvidere, Blairstown, Branchville, Byram, Frankford, Franklin (Sussex), Fredon, Frelinghuysen, Green, Hamburg, Hampton (Sussex), Hardwick, Hardyston, Hopatcong, Hope, Independence, Knowlton, Lafayette, Liberty, Montague, Mount Olive, Newton, Ogdensburg, Oxford, Sandyston, Sparta, Stanhope, Stillwater, Sussex, Vernon, Walpack, Wantage, White.
Each of the 40 districts in the New Jersey Legislature has one representative in the New Jersey Senate and two members in the New Jersey General Assembly. The other representatives from the 24th Legislative District for the 2016-2017 Legislative Session are: