assemblymember
English
Noun
assemblymember (plural assemblymembers)
- A person who serves as a member of an assembly.
- 1986, Gerald M. Pomper, The Political State of New Jersey, page 122:
- Another New Jersey assemblymember characterized the majority of his colleagues as follows: "It's like their life depends on it. It's their thing. It becomes an obsession, all the politics, the maneuvering, making deals".
- 2011, Roger Sanjek, Gray Panthers, page 94:
- Shortly before her May 1972 Denver press conference Maggie contacted Hope Bagger, eighty-one, who in March had convinced her assemblymember, Franz Leichter, to introduce a bill banning mandatory retirement in New York state.
- 2013, Anthony Gregory, The Power of Habeas Corpus in America: From the King's Prerogative to the War on Terror, page 74:
- Louis Louaillier, a U.S. citizen, journalist, and assemblymember, wrote in his local newspaper, The Louisiana Courier, that detainees should go to a civil judge...
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Synonyms
- assemblyman (even more common but sometimes male-specific)
- assemblyperson (more common)
- assemblywoman
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