President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. Secretary of Transportation would become the first New Jersey resident to serve in the cabinet since Lisa Jackson was the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator during Barack Obama’s first term.
Sean P. Duffy, a former Republican congressman from Wisconsin, purchased a home in Mendham Township in August 2021. He recently registered to vote in New Jersey – his registration becomes effective on January 31; that would put his registration date around January 10 of this year.
His wife, Rachel Campos-Duffy, a former reality TV personality and mother of nine, registered to vote in New Jersey in October and voted in the 2024 presidential election.
Earlier today, U.S. Senator Andy Kim questioned Duffy on New Jersey transportation projects during his Senate confirmation hearing.
Duffy had also been a reality TV personality before becoming a prosecutor, and in 2010 he flipped a congressional seat the GOP hadn’t held in over 40 years. He resigned from the House in 2019 after his ninth child was born with Down syndrome and heart defect.
He now lives 5.5 miles from former Gov. Chris Christie. Two former Secretaries of the Treasury, lived next door in Far Hills: C. Douglas Dillon, who served under John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson; and Nicholas Brady, who served during the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. Another Mendham Township-adjacent town, Harding, was the home of William E. Simon, the treasury secretary under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
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