Editing Sussex, New Jersey (section)

==Notable people==
{{Category see also|People from Sussex, New Jersey}}
People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Sussex include:
* [[Grant Decker]] (1814–1890), first mayor of [[Flint, Michigan]]<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Lad5AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA49&dq=%22Grant+Decker%22+Deckertown+Flint ''The Book of the Golden Jubilee of Flint, Michigan 1855-1905. Published Under the Auspices of the Executive Committee of the Golden Jubilee and Old Homecoming Reunion''], p. 49. Weller & Austin, 1905. Accessed December 26, 2022. "Grant Decker, the first Mayor of Flint, was forty-one years of age when elected Mayor, having been born February 4, 1814, in Deckertown, N.J., where his family located before the war of the Revolution."</ref>
* [[Paul W. Downs]] (born 1982), actor, writer, and director best known for his portrayal of Trey Pucker on the [[Comedy Central]] series ''[[Broad City]]''<ref>Horowitz, Steven J. [https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a55671/paul-w-downs-interview-rough-night-broad-city/ "Paul W. Downs' Feminist Ideals Are in His Work, Not on a T-Shirt"], ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'', June 19, 2017. Accessed March 14, 2022. "Comedy and acting have always been Downs' calling. Native to Sussex, New Jersey, he attended the private institution The Pingry School for his high school years, participating in its acting program and swimming, the latter of which he continued at Duke University for a short spell."</ref>
* [[D. C. Fontana]] (1939–2019), television script writer and [[story editor]], best known for her work on the original ''[[Star Trek]]'' franchise and several [[western (genre)|western]] television series<ref>Beckerman, Jim. [http://www.northjersey.com/news/ex-totowa-resident-a-shaper-of-star-trek-1.1656853 "Ex-Totowa resident a shaper of ''Star Trek''"], ''[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]]'', September 8, 2016. Accessed September 12, 2016. "'That was kind of the only way at the time,' says Fontana, who was born in Sussex, moved to Totowa a year later, and lived there for the next 19 years."</ref>
* [[Bill Glynn (baseball)|Bill Glynn]] (1925–2013), [[Major League Baseball]] [[first baseman]] who played four seasons of professional baseball for the [[Cleveland Indians]] and the [[Philadelphia Phillies]]<ref>Marsh, Richard. [http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/2b371d97 Bill Glynn], [[Society for American Baseball Research]]. Accessed August 11, 2016. "William Vincent Glynn, who played for three seasons with the Indians in a four-year major-league career, was born on June 30, 1925, in Sussex, New Jersey, the second son of Marshall Nelson, a laborer in a zinc mine, and his wife, Esta.  A premier athlete at Franklin High School, Glynn lettered as a first baseman in baseball, a running back in football, and a forward in basketball."</ref>
* [[William Alexander Linn]] (1846–1917), journalist and historian<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=PN8MAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA260 ''A Thousand American Men of Mark To-day''], p. 260. Accessed November 15, 2017. "William Alexander Linn - Lawyer, Banker, Author of Hackensack, N.J. was born Sept 4. 1846, in Sussex, N.J"</ref>
* [[Homer Mensch]] (1914–2005), classical bassist<ref>Applebaum, Samuel; and Applebaum, Sara. [https://books.google.com/books?id=a98YAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Homer+R.+Mensch%22+Sussex+born ''The Way They Play, Book 2''], p. 333. Paganiniana Publications, 1972. {{ISBN|9780876664384}}. Accessed June 18, 2020. "Homer R. Mensch, born November 13, 1914 in Sussex, New Jersey."</ref>