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Labor Leader: The story of Tom Giblin’s magnificent political career

September 1, 2025 12:15 amAugust 31, 2025 11:20 pm

Thomas P. Giblin got hooked on New Jersey politics at the age of seven, when his father won a seat on the Essex County Board of Freeholders in 1954. Over the last eight decades, he’s had a front-row seat watching...

Patricia McGarry Drake, former Essex County Clerk, dies at 82

November 29, 2021 3:31 pmNovember 30, 2021 9:10 am

Patricia McGarry Drake, who rose from a secretarial position to serve as Essex County Clerk from 1991 to 1996, died on November 25. She was 82. Drake worked in the county clerk’s office for 22 years — six years as...

Elton Hill, top aide to Newark Mayor Kenneth Gibson, dies at 89

July 17, 2020 4:53 pm

Elton E. Hill, a prominent Essex County political strategist who helped run Kenneth Gibson’s 1970 campaign to become the first Black mayor of Newark, died on July 11. He was 89. Hill and Gibson were childhood friends and he became...

Codey is a veteran of Democratic primaries

April 6, 2018 12:22 pmApril 10, 2018 4:41 pm

Dick Codey is accustomed to winning contested Democratic primaries. For the former governor, the Roseland War is part of his political wheelhouse. Back in 1973, the 26-year-old county committeeman from Orange was the top vote-getter in a State Assembly primary. ...