BettyLou DeCroce
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| Member of the New Jersey General Assembly from the 26th district | |
| In office January 25, 2012 – January 11, 2022 Serving with Jay Webber | |
| Preceded by | Alex DeCroce |
| Succeeded by | Christian Barranco |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Betty Lou Bisson[1] (1952-11-17) November 17, 1952 (age 71) |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Alex DeCroce (1994–2012; his death) |
| Children | 2 |
| Residence | Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey |
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BettyLou DeCroce (born November 17, 1952) is an American Republican Party politician, who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2012 to 2022, where she represented the 26th Legislative District.[2]
Born and raised in Dover, DeCroce is a realtor who formerly served as the President of the firm ERA Gallo & DeCroce, Inc. She attended Berkeley College and Rutgers University.[3]
A member of the Township Council in Mine Hill Township from 1981 to 1983, DeCroce later served on the Roxbury Township Planning Board from 1984 to 1987. In 1991, she was hired by the township to serve as its Deputy Township Manager from 1991 through 2002 and as its Township Clerk from 1988 to 2010.
In 2010, she was appointed Deputy Commissioner in the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, a position she held until 2012.[3] During this time, she authored the Best Practices for Municipalities, which became a statewide model for identifying efficiencies in local government for reducing property taxes.
DeCroce has served on the Morris County Joint Insurance Fund and was the North Jersey Health Insurance Fund Commissioner.
She married Alex DeCroce, who had been in the Assembly for two terms, in 1994.[4] She currently resides in Parsippany-Troy Hills and has two sons and four grandchildren.[5]
Alex DeCroce, who had served in the Assembly since 1993, died suddenly on January 9, 2012, at the age of 75, shortly after the 214th Legislature had ended.[6]
On January 25, 2012, BettyLou DeCroce was selected by the Morris County Republican Committee to replace him in the Assembly, defeating former Kinnelon Councilman Larry Casha by a nearly 2-1 margin.[4][7] She won a November 2012 special election for the remainder of the term, defeating Democratic candidate Joseph Raich.[8]
On June 8, 2021, DeCroce lost her reelection bid to former Pompton Lakes Councilman Christian Barranco.[9]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Republican | Jay Webber | 31,810 | 28.2 |  2.1
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| Republican | BettyLou DeCroce | 31,766 | 28.2 | 1.9
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| Democratic | Joseph R. Raich | 24,732 | 22.0 |  2.6
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| Democratic | E. William Edge | 24,362 | 21.6 | 2.8
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| Total votes | '112,670' | '100.0' | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Republican | Jay Webber | 13,739 | 30.3 | 2.3
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| Republican | BettyLou DeCroce | 13,666 | 30.1 | 2.8
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| Democratic | Avery Hart | 8,805 | 19.4 | 2.0
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| Democratic | Wayne B. Marek | 8,525 | 18.8 | 1.7
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| Green | Jimmy D. Brash | 666 | 1.5 | N/A | |
| Total votes | '45,401' | '100.0' | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Republican | BettyLou DeCroce | 35,352 | 32.9 | 0.9
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| Republican | Jay Webber | 35,028 | 32.6 | 1.2
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| Democratic | Elliot Isibor | 18,720 | 17.4 | 0.6
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| Democratic | Joseph Raich | 18,379 | 17.1 | 0.5
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| Total votes | '107,479' | '100.0' | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Republican | Betty Lou DeCroce | 51,485 | 60.5 | |
| Democratic | Joseph R. Raich | 33,618 | 39.5 | |
| Total votes | 85,103 | 100.0 | ||
BettyLou DeCroce bested Larry Casha, 120-67, at a special convention Wednesday night, where GOP county committee delegates chose her to fill the state Assembly seat left vacant by her husband's death. ... BettyLou (nee Bisson), who married Alex DeCroce in 1994, had served as a Mine Hill councilwoman when she was in her mid-20s.[permanent dead link]
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| Preceded by | Member of the New Jersey General Assembly for the 26th District January 25, 2012 – January 11, 2022 With: Jay Webber |
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