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New Jersey liked Ike, but Warren Harding set the record

February 21, 2022 12:09 amFebruary 19, 2022 4:13 pm

New Jersey loved Warren Harding. In the 1920 presidential election, Harding won 68% of the vote in New Jersey. He won all 21 counties, and the GOP won 59 of the state’s 60 State Assembly seats. Calvin Coolidge took 62%...

Labor Leader: Arthur Quinn was a Middlesex senator, state AFL president

September 6, 2021 12:04 amSeptember 5, 2021 6:02 pm

Arthur A. Quinn (D-Perth Amboy) was a state senator from Middlesex County in the 1930s and wrote the law establishing eight-hour workdays for state, county and municipal employees. Quinn had organized the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America...

Labor Leader: Vincent J. Murphy was NJ AFL-CIO president, two-term Mayor of Newark

September 6, 2021 12:01 amSeptember 4, 2021 3:46 pm

One of the most influential labor leaders in New Jersey history was Vincent J. Murphy (1893-1976), who spent nine years as the president of the New Jersey AFL-CIO after two terms as the Mayor of Newark. He was the Democratic...

More than three years later, racist flyers in Edison, Hoboken remain cold cases

March 3, 2021 2:35 pmMarch 3, 2021 5:05 pm

There are two cold cases Attorney General Gurbir Grewal is having trouble solving, even though they are inextricably linked. Both took place in during the final days of the November 2017 campaign and involved racist flyers that took aim at...

New Jersey liked Ike, but Warren Harding set the record

February 15, 2021 12:10 amFebruary 13, 2021 6:27 pm

New Jersey loved Warren Harding. In the 1920 presidential election, Harding won 68% of the vote in New Jersey. He won all 21 counties, and the GOP won 59 of the state’s 60 State Assembly seats. Calvin Coolidge took 62%...

Labor Leader: Vincent J. Murphy was NJ AFL-CIO president, two-term Mayor of Newark

September 7, 2020 12:02 amSeptember 4, 2021 3:46 pm

One of the most influential labor leaders in New Jersey history was Vincent J. Murphy (1893-1976), who spent nine years as the president of the New Jersey AFL-CIO after two terms as the Mayor of Newark. He was the Democratic...

Jim McGreevey, Photo by Kevin Sanders for New Jersey Globe

N.J. Supreme Court: The McGreevey and Corzine Courts

June 7, 2020 10:11 pmJune 7, 2020 11:20 pm

Gov. Christine Todd Whitman resigned in February 2001 to join President George W. Bush’s cabinet as administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Senate President Donald DiFrancesco succeeded her as governor, but no seats on the New Jersey Supreme Court...