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The switch

August 13, 2019 1:47 amAugust 13, 2019 1:44 am

Bob Torricelli, seeking re-election to a second term in the United States Senate in 2002, was severely admonished by the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics on July 31 for accepting expensive gifts from one of his campaign contributors, David...

Bob Dole turns 96

July 22, 2019 9:02 pmJuly 22, 2019 10:11 pm

Bob Dole, who turned 96 today, served with 27 New Jerseyans during his 35 years in Congress — five in the Senate, where he represented Kansas from 1969 to 1996, and 22 in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he...

William Walls, longtime federal judge, dies

July 15, 2019 8:07 pmJuly 16, 2019 12:24 pm

William Walls, who served 25 years as a federal judge in New Jersey, has died. He was 86. The Star-Ledger first reported his passing. President Bill Clinton nominated Walls to serve as a U.S. District Court Judge in 1994, at...

Pete Dawkins, once GOP dream candidate, gets married

July 14, 2019 8:17 pmJuly 15, 2019 11:55 am

Gen. Pete Dawkins, the 1988 Republican candidate for United States Senate against Frank Lautenberg, was married on Tuesday to Mary Martin Ourisman, the U.S. Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean under President George W. Bush. This is the second...

Renny Travisano, former Middlesex county clerk, dies at 82

June 9, 2019 1:53 pmJune 9, 2019 9:07 pm

Raniero Travisano, a popular Sayreville Democrat who served one term as Middlesex County Clerk before losing in the 1990 anti-Florio protest election, died on June 8. He was 82. Travisano was a junior high school teacher and guidance counselor when...

Death of Cochran leaves 31 living ex-Senators who served with Case

May 30, 2019 2:07 pm

There are 31 living Americans who served in the United States Senate with Clifford Case, the last Republican to win a U.S. Senate race in New Jersey. Thad Cochran, who died today at age 81, began his 40-year tenure in...

New Jersey hasn’t elected a president since 1912

April 13, 2019 11:04 am

U.S. Senator Cory Booker holds a hometown kickoff rally today to become the first New Jerseyan to win the presidency since Gov. Woodrow Wilson in 1912. Booker is one of two Bergen County native to seek the presidency next year....