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New Castle County
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Politicians who died in New Castle County

	New Castle County (no city given): Nicholas Van Dyke, 1789 — Thomas Stockton, 1846
	Elsmere: William D. Denney, 1953
	Faulkland: L. Heisler Ball, 1932
	Greenville: Lammot Copeland, 1983 — John W. Rollins, Sr., 2000
	Middletown: Benjamin T. Biggs, 1893
	Near Middletown: John P. Cochran, 1898
	New Castle: Gunning Bedford, 1797 — George Read, 1798 — Nicholas Van Dyke, 1826 — Thomas Clayton, 1854 — Preston Lea, 1916 — Thomas Holcomb, 1965
	Near New Castle: C. Douglass Buck, 1965
	Newark: Thomas A. Smith, 1932
	Odessa: Arnold Naudain, 1872 — Alexander P. Corbit, 1923
	Summit Bridge: Charles H. Salmon, 1920
	Wilmington:
	Wilmington, 1700-1799: John McKinly, 1796 — Eleazer McComb, 1798    Wilmington, 1800-1899: John Vining, 1802 — John Dickinson, 1808 — Samuel White, 1809 — Gunning Bedford, Jr., 1812 — James Asheton Bayard, Sr., 1815 — Caleb Prew Bennett, 1836 — John Wales, 1863 — Willard Hall, 1875 — James A. Bayard, 1880 — Edward G. Bradford, 1884 — William G. Whiteley, 1886 — Joshua T. Heald, 1887    Wilmington, 1900-1999: Charles Brown Lore, 1911 — William H. Armstrong, 1919 — George Gray, 1925 — Willard Saulsbury, Jr., 1927 — T. Coleman du Pont, 1930 — William S. Booze, 1933 — Harrison W. Howell, 1935 — Robert P. Robinson, 1939 — Thomas F. Bayard, 1942 — Richard C. McMullen, 1944 — Frank C. Sparks, 1944 — William Wintrup, 1946 — Albert Fawcett Polk, 1955 — Philip A. Traynor, 1962 — Walter W. Bacon, 1962 — Daniel O. Hastings, 1966 — John Biggs, Jr., 1979 — Reynolds du Pont, 1980 — J. Caleb Boggs, 1993    Wilmington, 2000-2012: Thomas C. Maloney, 2000 — John E. Babiarz, 2004
	Near Wilmington: James Tilton, 1822
	Winterthur: Henry A. du Pont, 1926

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