[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 163 (Friday, October 20, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1995]
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               ASSEMBLYMAN ARTHUR ALBOHN: PUBLIC SERVANT

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                      HON. RODNEY P. FRELINGHUYSEN

                             of new jersey

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, October 19, 1995

  Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. Speaker, today, I rise to pay tribute to a 
good friend and former colleague, Assemblyman Arthur Albohn of Hanover 
Township who is retiring from the New Jersey General Assembly after 16 
years of dedicated service.
  Having served with Art in the Assembly for 11 of those years as the 
junior member of the 25th Legislative District, I must say that it was 
difficult referring to oneself as a fiscal conservative while sitting 
next to him in the Assembly Chamber. Art has voted ``no'' on so many 
spending bills during his career that he makes the 104th Congress look 
like the previous forty. In the process, he earned the respect of his 
colleagues, the appreciation of his constituents and the admiration of 
all New Jerseyans.
  He was elected to the General Assembly in 1979 after serving on the 
Hanover Township Committee for 27 years, including 5 terms as Mayor, 18 
years as the Director of Finance and 12 on the Sewerage Authority.
  However, Art's forte was developed earlier in life during his 
education in New York. Born in Queens, Art graduated from Columbia 
University and earned an additional degree in Chemical Engineering. 
Since that time, Art had worked in chemical engineering and management 
consulting for Goodyear, Rayonier, Celanese and more recently retired 
from the Komline-Sanderson Engineering Corporation of Peapack-
Gladstone.
  Art has utilized his proficiency in this field while serving as 
Chairman of the Assembly Solid and Hazardous Waste Committee and as a 
member of the Assembly Local Government Committee and New Jersey 
Commission on Science and Technology. As former colleagues in the 
Assembly, Representatives Jim Saxton, Dick Zimmer, Bob Franks, Frank 
LoBiondo and Bob Menendez can each attest to Art's commitment to 
legislation based on common sense and sound science.
  Anyone who knows Art Albohn knows that he could not have been so 
successful without the love and support of his wife of 51 years, 
Regina, who has been at his side and often out in front during his 
political career. As far as we know, Regina is the only person to whom 
Art has never said ``no''!
  Although they will want to spend time with their three children and 
two grandchildren, I have no doubt that Art and Regina will remain 
active in public life and still have much to contribute to the quality 
of life in Morris County, NJ. I, for one, will still count on his 
friendship and good counsel. I will miss him as a fellow elected 
official, his strong, independent views, his dry humor and unfailing 
dedication to the Jeffersonian proposition ``that government which 
governs least, governs best.''

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