Richard Stockton, 3rd, son of Bayard Stockton and Charlotte Shields Stockton, married November 5, 1910, Martha King Hughes, daughter of Thomas Hughes, Esq. and Roberta Thorburn Hughes, of Baltimore, Maryland. Mrs. Stockton was born September 1, 1881 in Baltimore, MD and died on May 31, 1975 in Nashville, Tennessee while visiting her daughter, Martha Stockton Brush. Richard Stockton, 3rd lived in Princeton all his life and in Morven until his marriage.
He was a Democrat and an Episcopalian. He was a graduate of Princeton University, Class of 1909, was a lawyer, with offices in Trenton and Princeton, and was First Assistant Attorney General of New Jersey for many years and at the time of his death. He assisted Attorney General Wilentz in prosecuting the Lindburgh Kidnapping Case--the first "Crime of the Century".
In 1927, shortly after the death of his father, he and his step-mother, Mrs. Helen Stockton, who had jointly inherited Morven, leased it to Mr. Robert Wood Johnson, one of the founders of Johnson & Johnson. Therefore, Richard Stockton, 3rd was the last Stockton to live at Morven. After his death on February 9, 1944, his children, and his step-mother, Mrs. Helen Stockton who was then in a declining state of health, sold Morven to Governor Walter Edge (1945), with the understanding that upon the death of Governor Edge and his wife, Morven would be given to the State of New Jersey to be used as either the Governor's Mansion or for a museum (it's present-1996-use). Governor Edge decided, however, to give Morven to the state in 1956, which he did. It thus became the Governor's Mansion, with Governor Robert Meyner being first to use it as such, February 1, 1957.
Martha Hughes - b. September 7, 1911, d. October 26, 1990
Bayard - b. October 6, 1912, d. December 25, 1986
Charlotte Shields - b. June 22, 1914, d. May 4, 1977
Richard, IV - b. October 16, 1915, d. February 4, 1917
Roberta Thorburn - b. January 15, 1920, d.