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[[Image:Mary Previte.jpg|frame|right|Assemblywoman Mary Previte]]'''Mary Previte''' (born [[September 7]], [[1932]] in [[Kaifeng]], [[China]]) serves in the [[New Jersey]] [[New Jersey General Assembly|General Assembly]] representing the [[New Jersey Legislature#District 6|6th legislative district]] since [[1998]].

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Mary Previte

| image =

| office2 = Member of the [[New Jersey General Assembly]]<br>from the [[New Jersey's 6th legislative district|6th Legislative District]]

| term_start2 = January 10, 1998

| term_end2 = January 9, 2006

| alongside2 = [[Louis Greenwald]]

| predecessor2 = [[John A. Rocco]]

| successor2 = [[Pamela Rosen Lampitt]]

| birth_date = {{birth date|1932|9|7}}

| birth_place = [[Kaifeng]], Henan, China

| death_date = {{death date and age|2019|11|16|1932|9|7}}

| death_place = [[Camden, New Jersey]], U.S.

| party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]

| alma_mater = [[Greenville College]]<br/>[[Glassboro State College]]

}}

'''Mary Evelyn Previte''' (September 7, 1932 – November 16, 2019) was an American [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] politician who served in the [[New Jersey General Assembly]], where she represented the [[New Jersey's 6th legislative district|6th legislative district]] from 1998 to 2006.

==Life and career==

Previte serves in the Assembly on the Family, Women and Children's Services Committee (as Chair), the Federal Relations Committee and the Regulated Professions and Independent Authorities Committee.

Born in [[Kaifeng]], [[China]] on September 7, 1932, Previte was the great-granddaughter of [[Hudson Taylor|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 [[Japan]]ese [[concentration camp]] at [[Weihsien Compound]] during [[World War II]], from which she was liberated by American [[paratroopers]] on August 17, 1945.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Bristow|first1=Michael|title=Growing up in a Japanese WW2 internment camp in China|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-33709730|accessdate=August 17, 2015|publisher=[[BBC News]]|date=August 17, 2015}}</ref> 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.<ref name="National Women's History Project">{{cite web|url=http://www.nwhp.org/whm/previte_bio.php|work=2006|title=National Women's History Project Honorees|accessdate=March 16, 2014}}</ref> But this did not hinder her from going on to attend [[Spring Arbor Junior College]] and later graduate with a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] from [[Greenville College]] and received an [[Master of Arts|M.A.]] from Glassboro State College (now [[Rowan University]]) in English / Education.

Assemblywoman Previte has served on the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Advisory Committee since [[1995]]. She served on the Advisory Council on Juvenile Justice in [[1994]]. She was a trustee on the [[Haddonfield, New Jersey|Haddonfield]] [[Board of Education]] from [[1972]]-[[1974]] and on the [[Voorhees Township, New Jersey|Voorhees]] Board of Education in [[1966]] and [[1967]]. Previte has been the Administrator of [[Camden County, New Jersey|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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Assemblywoman Previte is not running for reelection to the Assembly in November of 2005.

In 1994, she published ''Hungry Ghosts'', the story of her experience as Administrator of the Youth Center.

Mary Previte graduated with a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] from [[Greenville College]] and received an [[M.A.]] from Glassboro State College (now [[Rowan University]]) in English / Education.

Previte was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly representing the 6th legislative district from 1998 to 2006. She served on the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Advisory Committee since 1995. She served on the Advisory Council on Juvenile Justice in 1994. Previte served in the Assembly on the Family, Women and Children's Services Committee (as Chair), the Federal Relations Committee and the Regulated Professions and Independent Authorities Committee. She did not seek reelection to the Assembly in 2005, and was succeeded by fellow Democrat [[Pamela Rosen Lampitt]]. She died on November 16, 2019, at the age of 87 from complications of injuries sustained after being struck by a motor vehicle weeks prior.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.inquirer.com/news/mary-taylor-previte-obituary-south-jersey-assemblywoman-concentration-camp-20191118.html|title=Mary T. Previte, former N.J. Assemblywoman and concentration camp survivor, dies at 87|first=Kristen A.|last=Graham|website=inquirer.com|accessdate=Nov 19, 2019}}</ref>

==Published works==

*''Hungry Ghosts'' {{ISBN|978-0-310-20665-1}}

==See also==

* [[Norman Howard Cliff]]

==References==

{{Reflist}}

==External links==

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20051102193559/http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/membersMembers/previte.asp Assemblywoman Previte's Legislative Website]

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050906214940/http://www.NJVoterInfonjvoterinfo.org/cb/previte.html New Jersey Voter Information Website 2003]

*[http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/ethics/FinancialDisclosure/PreviteM2004.pdf New Jersey Legislature financial disclosure form for 2004 (PDF)]

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050514125504/http://www.haddonfieldsun.com/news_story.php?newsId=6&edition=2 Haddonfield Sun article], August 4, 2004

*[http://www.seejanewin.com/HowJaneWon.htm How Jane Won], book describing successful women (including Previte)

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