Frank Hague Archives - New Jersey Globe

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...

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...