Frank Farley Archives - New Jersey Globe

Trailblazer: Commissioner Horace Bryant, Sr.

January 18, 2021 12:02 amJanuary 16, 2021 10:20 pm

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...

Rivals come together in tribute to local legend

September 9, 2020 6:52 pm

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...

Cardinale endorses Pallotta for Congress

June 12, 2020 10:55 amJune 12, 2020 10:56 am

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....

N.J. Supreme Court: The Meyner Court

June 7, 2020 10:00 pmJune 7, 2020 10:47 pm

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...

Codey praises Murphy top court pick, prepares for 19th Senate confirmation of a new Justice

June 5, 2020 2:00 pmJune 5, 2020 2:02 pm

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...

Bergen conventions around since 1976

March 23, 2020 8:55 pmMarch 23, 2020 9:09 pm

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,...

Key moment for Nixon was when 18 New Jersey Republicans bolted from Case

February 17, 2020 12:12 pm

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...