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Happy Birthday, Nicholas Brady

April 10, 2022 12:01 amApril 10, 2022 10:57 pm

Nicholas Brady, New Jersey’s oldest-living former United States Senator, will celebrate his 92nd birthday on Monday. Brady served in the U.S. Senate for nearly nine months in 1982, following the resignation of Democrat Harrison Williams. He also served as U.S....

How Sacco got to the N.J. Senate

February 24, 2022 9:02 am

When Nicholas Sacco decided he wanted the 32nd district Senate seat nearly 30 years ago, two years after he became Mayor of North Bergen, he just took it. The incumbent in 1993 was Thomas Cowan of the Operating Engineers union,...

Kennedy demolished Carter in New Jersey

February 21, 2022 12:18 amFebruary 19, 2022 4:29 pm

The final day of the race for the race for the 1980 Democratic nomination came down to New Jersey and seven other states as Jimmy Carter and Ted Kennedy battled for delegates in a rare bid to deny a sitting...

Biden 1972 consultant worked on Dick Coffee for governor campaign in 1973

February 21, 2022 12:00 amFebruary 19, 2022 4:31 pm

The first link between Joe Biden and New Jersey politics came a few months after he won a seat in the United States Senate. Biden was just 29 when he unseated incumbent J. Caleb Boggs, a two-term Republican Senator who...

John Polhemus, two-term Democratic freeholder from Warren County, dies at 81

February 16, 2022 12:02 amFebruary 15, 2022 11:40 pm

John D. Polhemus, a former Peace Corps volunteer who was twice elected as a Democrat to the Warren County Board of Freeholders, died on February 12. He was 81. Raised on his family dairy farm with aspirations of becoming a...

Robert Mulcahy, New Jersey icon, dies at 85

February 8, 2022 7:29 pm

Robert E. Mulcahy III, a former Mendham mayor who became one of the most powerful political insiders of his generation as the chief of staff to Gov. Brendan Byrne, died on February 8. He was 85. He served as the...

Murphy extols New Jersey Dream as second term begins

January 18, 2022 12:51 pmJanuary 18, 2022 6:01 pm

Before a vaccinated-and-tested crowd at the Trenton War Memorial, Gov. Phil Murphy was sworn in today for a second term as the governor of New Jersey, becoming the first Democrat to do so since former Gov. Brendan Byrne in 1977....