Horace Bryant, Jr. (1909-1983) was the first African American to serve in the cabinet of a New Jersey governor. Richard J. Hughes appointed him to serve as commissioner of Banking and Insurance in 1969. Bryant had spent over 40 years...
A group of Atlantic County politicians – some of whom do not like each other – came together today in tribute to the late Gerald Gormley, who served as the Hap Farley-era Atlantic County Sheriff. The Atlantic County Sheriff’s Foundation...
Frank Pallotta has picked up a major endorsement in his bid for the GOP congressional nomination in New Jersey’s 5th district: State Sen. Gerald Cardinale (R-Demarest), a hugely popular 12-term incumbent with an enormous following about conservative Republican primary voters....
Gov. Robert Meyner had an opportunity to affect a complete makeover of the New Jersey Supreme Court during his two terms as governor, nominating seven justices between 1954 and 1962 on a court that had been established just six years...
Former Gov. Richard J. Codey thinks that Fabiana Pierre-Louis is an “excellent nominee” for a seat on the New Jersey Supreme Court. “Her reputation as an attorney of the highest integrity and a person of great character precedes her,” said...
The Bergen County Republican Organization was one of the first counties in the state to award their organization line based on an open vote of the full county committee in 1976. The convention process was the brainstorm of Cassius Daly,...
For some time, presidential primaries in New Jersey where nothing more than beauty contests where the preferred candidate of a voter was deemed so unimportant that their names did not appear on the ballot. Instead, voters had to wrote in...