Henry P. McNamara (December 9, 1934 – August 27, 2018) was an American Republican Party politician, who served in the New Jersey State Senate from 1985 to 2008, where he represented the 40th Legislative District.
[1] He was born in Passaic, New Jersey on December 9, 1934, and attended Pope Pius XII High School.
[2][1] Before entering the Senate, McNamara spent six years in the New Jersey National Guard.
McNamara decided against running for re-election in 2007 and announced he would step down at the end of his term in 2008.
[3] McNamara sponsored New Jersey's open space trust fund, wrote the law to clean up underground storage tanks, re-wrote the laws governing toxic waste cleanup and led the way for a Brownfields law – a plan to get private investors to clean up polluted industrial sites and make those sites clean and useful again.