
George Sebastian Silzer (14 April 1870-16 October 1940) was the Democratic Governor of New Jersey from 15 January 1923 to 19 January 1926, succeeding Edward I. Edwards and preceding A. Harry Moore.
Biography[]
George Sebastian Silzer was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1870, and he practiced law from 1892 to 1914, served on the board of aldermen from 1892 to 1896, in the State Senate from 1907 to 1912 (during which time he was one of Woodrow Wilson's leading legislative allies), as Middlesex County prosecutor from 1912 to 1914, as a circuit court judge from 1914 to 1922, and as Governor from 1923 to 1926. Silzer's progressive agenda was blocked by the uncooperative Republican state legislature, but he was successful with his pushes for transportation reform and the completion of the Holland Tunnel. He served as Chair of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey from 1926 to 1928, and he died in Newark in 1940.