Frank Hague Archives - New Jersey Globe

New Jersey liked Ike, but Warren Harding set the record

February 17, 2020 12:09 amFebruary 16, 2020 6:56 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%...

100 years ago today, New Jersey ratified the 19th amendment

February 9, 2020 12:55 amFebruary 9, 2020 3:43 pm

One Hundred years ago today, New Jersey became the 29th state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment giving women the right to vote. The New Jersey Senate passed a resolution to ratify the amendment on February 3, 1920 by a vote...

Earp endorsement gives Jones majority of votes in Democratic state chairman race

November 11, 2019 10:57 amNovember 11, 2019 12:10 pm

Ocean County Democratic Chairman Wyatt Earp has endorsed LeRoy Jones, Jr. for New Jersey Democratic State Chairman, a move that appears to give Jones enough votes to defeat incumbent John Currie and deny Gov. Phil Murphy control of the state...

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

September 2, 2019 1:03 amSeptember 2, 2019 1:06 am

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

September 2, 2019 1:01 amSeptember 2, 2019 10:24 am

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...

Genevieve Eilders, worked for Frank Hague, congressional staffer when Truman was president, dies at 105

March 22, 2019 12:28 amMarch 22, 2019 11:03 am

When Jersey City’s Genevieve Gburczyk Eilers went to Washington to work as a congressional aide, Harry Truman was president and John F. Kennedy was still a congressman. Eilers, who served as an assistant to Rep. Alfred Sieminski from 1951 to...

The time Frank Hague tried to take over Montclair

March 19, 2019 8:47 am

Most New Jerseyans involved in local politics are familiar with the Faulkner Act, aka the Optional Municipal Charter Law, which gives municipalities a smorgasbord of different forms of local government to pick from. Here’s the backstory. Back in 1934, Jersey...