Associate Justice Harry Heher

Justice Heher was born at Trenton, New Jersey, on March 20, 1889. He is the son of John and Anne Spelman Heher. He was educated at the Cathedral School of his native city and at the Trenton High School, from which he was graduated in the class of 1907. He read law with Charles E. Gummere, and was admitted to the Bar at the February 1911, Term of the Supreme Court. He practiced law at Trenton until October 20, 1932, when he was given an ad interim appointment by Governor Moore as an associate justice of the Supreme Court, to succeed Justice Luther A. Campbell, lately appointed Chancellor of New Jersey. He took the oath of office on October 24, 1932. At the ensuing session of the Legislature his nomination for a full term of seven years was forwarded to the Senate by Governor Moore and Confirmed. He was commissioned on March 9, 1933. In 1940, he was reappointed by Governor Moore for a second term and, in 1947, was named by Governor Driscoll for a third term. On December 8, 1947, Governor Driscoll nominated him as an associate justice of the new Supreme Court created by the Constitution of 1947, and the nomination was confirmed on December 15, 1947, effective September 15, 1948, when the court was organized. Justice Haher retired from the court on March 19, 1959.

In April 1915, Justice Heher was elected chairman of the Mercer County Democratic Executive Committee. He served his party in that capacity until February 21, 1922, when he was elected chairman of the Democratic State Committee. He held this office until his elevation to the Supreme Court.

He was a district delegate to the Democratic National Convention held at New York in 1924, representing the Old Fourth Congressional District, and was the State delegation's representative on the Resolutions Committee of that Convention. He was a delegate-at-large to his party's national conventions held at Houston in 1928, and at Chicago in 1932, and was chairman of the State's delegations to those conventions.

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