Charles V. Webb Jr.

Charles W. Webb Jr. (April 17, 1910 – May 15, 2010) was an American Republican Party politician from Essex County, New Jersey.

Biography Born in East Orange, New Jersey, Webb was a 1927 graduate of Orange High School and worked as a bookkeeper in the Newark law offices of George S. Hobart, a former Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly. He filed a certificate of clerkship with the New Jersey Supreme Court and read law at Hobart and Minard (under the supervision of Hobart, a former Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly) until passing the New Jersey bar exam in 1934 and a two-day written counselors exam in 1937.

Then a resident of Maplewood, New Jersey, Governor Alfred Driscoll appointed him to serve as Essex County Prosecutor.

After losing the Senate race, Webb started a law firm, Webb, McDermott & McGee, which specialized in medical malpractice defense. He retired in 1975. He was married to Rosemary T. Wiesel from 1936 until her death in 1982. He died in 2010, less than a month after his 100th birthday.