Declan Joseph O'Scanlon, Jr. | |
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Member of the New Jersey General Assembly from the 13th Legislative District | |
Assumed office January 10, 2012 Serving with Amy Handlin |
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Preceded by | Samuel D. Thompson |
Member of the New Jersey General Assembly from the 12th Legislative District | |
In office January 8, 2008 – January 10, 2012 Serving with Caroline Casagrande |
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Preceded by |
Jennifer Beck Michael J. Panter |
Succeeded by |
Robert D. Clifton Ronald S. Dancer |
Personal details | |
Born |
Marlboro Township, New Jersey |
June 9, 1963
Political party | Republican |
Spouse(s) | Heather |
Residence | Little Silver, New Jersey |
Alma mater | B.A. / B.S. Monmouth University |
Website | Legislative web page |
Declan Joseph O'Scanlon, Jr. (born June 9, 1963) is an American Republican Party politician, who is serving in the New Jersey General Assembly representing the 13th Legislative District since January 10, 2012. Prior to the 2011 redistricting, he represented the 12th District in the Assembly from January 8, 2008 until 2012.
O'Scanlon was born in Marlboro Township and resides in Little Silver. He served on the Little Silver Borough Council from 1994 to 2007 and also served as the borough's police commissioner. O'Scanlon graduated with a B.A. from Monmouth University with a major in Psychology, and a B.S. from Monmouth University in Finance. He is the Chief Executive Officer of FSD Enterprises LLC of Red Bank. The company is a wireless telecommunications consulting and public relations firm he founded in 1995. FSD specializes in helping bring together elected officials and wireless industry representatives to promote mutually agreeable solutions to wireless infrastructure siting. FSD's areas of expertise include municipal wireless ordinance construction, current wireless technology and future trends and municipal bidding for wireless infrastructure locations.
Running together with Jennifer Beck, O'Scanlon lost the very close Assembly election held on November 8, 2005. As of December 6, 2005, Beck was declared winner of one of the seats, and was the top vote getter in the District with 31,421 votes. Freshman Democratic Assemblyman Michael J. Panter won re-election with 30,473 votes, narrowly edging O'Scanlon, who had 30,400 votes, just 73 fewer than Panter. One-term incumbent Robert Lewis Morgan lost his bid for re-election, coming in fourth with 30,257 votes.