Mary Previte
| Mary Previte | |
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| Member of the New Jersey General Assembly from the 6th Legislative District |
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In office January 10, 1998 – January 9, 2006 Serving with Louis Greenwald |
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| Preceded by | John A. Rocco |
| Succeeded by | Pamela Rosen Lampitt |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
September 7, 1932 Kaifeng, Henan, China |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Alma mater |
Greenville College Glassboro State College |
Mary Evelyn Previte (born September 7, 1932 in Kaifeng, China) is an American Democratic Party politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly, where she represented the 6th legislative district from 1998 to 2006.
Previte is the great-granddaughter of James Hudson Taylor, the founder of China Inland Mission. As a young girl, Previte was a student at the Chefoo School at Yantai in Shandong, China and spent three years in a Japanese concentration camp at Weihsien Compound during World War II, from which she was liberated by American paratroopers on August 17, 1945. Over 50 years later, in 1997, she began to seek out and thank, in person, each of the soldiers who had been involved in liberating the camp.
At the age of 14, Previte lost her left hand in a revolving saw accident. But this did not hinder her from going on to graduate with a B.A. from Greenville College and received an M.A. from Glassboro State College (now Rowan University) in English / Education.
She served on the Voorhees Board of Education in 1966 and 1967 and a trustee on the Haddonfield Board of Education from 1972-1974. Previte has been the Administrator of Camden County Youth Center for over 20 years and was elected in 1997 as the first female president of the New Jersey Juvenile Detention Association.
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