Frank Hague Archives - New Jersey Globe

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

September 5, 2022 12:14 amSeptember 4, 2022 3:46 pm

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

September 5, 2022 12:10 amSeptember 4, 2022 4:08 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...

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

September 5, 2022 12:07 amSeptember 4, 2022 3:38 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: Arthur Quinn was a Middlesex senator, state AFL president

September 5, 2022 12:02 amSeptember 4, 2022 4:01 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...

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...