Pierre Prosper Garven

Pierre Prosper Garven was the Mayor of Bayonne, New Jersey. He was an alternate delegate to 1916 Republican National Convention for New Jersey. He was the Hudson County Prosecutor of the Pleas in 1919.

Biography He was born on June 9, 1872, in Bayonne, New Jersey.

He served four more years as mayor until 1919. In 1916, Garven was an alternate delegate to Republican National Convention. He was the leader of the Republican Party of Bayonne from 1906 to 1923. In 1919, Garven became the Hudson County Prosecutor of Pleas. In 1934, he became the Assistant State Attorney General for New Jersey.

Garven suffered a stroke while visiting his daughters and died on October 19, 1938, in the Jersey City Medical Center. He is buried in Bayview – New York Bay Cemetery in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Legacy Garven's son Pierre P. Garven was Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court for seven weeks in 1973, from when he took office as Chief Justice on September 1, 1973, to when he died of a stroke on October 19, 1973.