Lloyd B. Marsh

Who was Lloyd B. Marsh?

Lloyd Bertram Marsh was an American Republican Party politician who served as Secretary of State of New Jersey and Chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee.

Marsh was born in Little Falls, New Jersey in 1893 to James and Emma Marsh. After attending Clifton High School, Marsh first worked as an office boy for the Passaic County Clerk. He eventually achieved the position of County Clerk in 1929. He became chairman of the Passaic County Republican Committee in 1937.

In 1943 Marsh managed the campaign of Walter Evans Edge for Governor of New Jersey. When Edge received his party's nomination, Marsh was elected Chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee. Edge also appointed Marsh Secretary of State of New Jersey in 1946, a position he continued to serve under Edge's successor, Alfred E. Driscoll, until the end of his term in 1954.

Three years after Marsh's death in 1971, he was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in a grand jury indictment of J. Edward Crabiel, then serving as Governor Brendan Byrne's Secretary of State. The indictment charged that Marsh and others had received bribes from paving companies in return for awarding contracts in Paterson and the surrounding Passaic County area.