Frank Hague Archives - New Jersey Globe

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,...

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%...

Eight-term Gibbsboro mayor now a Hall of Famer

November 19, 2021 10:48 amNovember 19, 2021 11:14 am

Independent Gibbsboro Mayor Edward G. Campbell III was inducted into the platinum level of the New Jersey Mayors’ Hall of Fame for serving 30 years in office, but that wasn’t for Gail Peterson’s lack of trying to stop it. The...

Phil Murphy’s Curse of the Bambino

October 11, 2021 12:50 pmOctober 20, 2021 6:32 pm

Baseball loyalties come up in Jack Ciattarelli’s stump speech as the Republican gubernatorial nominee likes to remind voters that while he’s a hardcore New York Yankees fan while Gov. Phil Murphy roots for the Boston Red Sox. Murphy hasn’t shied...

Working Families backs Fulop re-election

October 6, 2021 9:44 amOctober 6, 2021 9:44 am

Steve Fulop has won the endorsement of the New Jersey Working Families Alliance in his bid for a third term as mayor of Jersey City. “Mayor Fulop has been leading the charge on the issues that are most critical to...

Labor Leader: Louis Marciante headed the NJ AFL for 27 years

September 6, 2021 12:09 amSeptember 4, 2021 3:44 pm

Louis P. Marciante (1898-1961) was the president of the New Jersey American Federal of Labor (AFL) from 1934 until his death of a heart attack at age 62 amidst a stressful merger between the AFL and the Congress of Industrial...

Labor Leader: ex-Yankees pitcher later served as N.J. Commissioner of Labor

September 6, 2021 12:07 amSeptember 6, 2021 12:14 am

Before Bill Bradley, there was Harry C. Harper. Known as “Hackensack Harry,” Harper spent ten seasons as a major league baseball pitcher. The big left-hander was the starting pitcher for the New York Yankees game six of the 1921 World...