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Labor Leader: George Norcross spent 16 years as South Jersey AFL-CIO president

September 2, 2024 12:08 amSeptember 1, 2024 8:36 pm

George E. Norcross (1928-1998), the father of a U.S. Congressman, the managing partner at a major New Jersey law firm, and the state’s most powerful Democratic powerbroker, spent his career as a labor leader. Norcross served as president of the...

LBJ, Nixon swept all 21 New Jersey counties

February 19, 2024 12:12 amFebruary 16, 2025 4:02 pm

Just 22,091 votes separated John F. Kennedy from Richard M. Nixon in the contest for New Jersey’s sixteen electoral votes in the 1960 presidential election. Kennedy won 50% to Nixon’s 49%, but Nixon carried 14 of New Jersey’s 21 counties....

Labor Leader: Paul J. Krebs, last president of N.J. CIO served one-term in Congress

September 4, 2023 12:10 amSeptember 3, 2023 5:14 pm

The last New Jersey Democrat to lose a U.S. Senate race in New Jersey was Paul Krebs (1912-1996), labor leader and one-term congressman from Livingston. His story involves one of the great New Jersey labor union feuds. The account starts...

Labor Leader: George Norcross spent 16 years as South Jersey AFL-CIO president

September 4, 2023 12:08 amSeptember 3, 2023 5:09 pm

George E. Norcross (1928-1998), the father of a U.S. Congressman, the managing partner at a major New Jersey law firm, and the state’s most powerful Democratic powerbroker, spent his career as a labor leader. Norcross served as president of the...

Labor Leader: George Norcross spent 16 years as South Jersey AFL-CIO president

September 5, 2022 12:09 amSeptember 4, 2022 3:40 pm

George E. Norcross (1928-1998), the father of a U.S. Congressman, the managing partner at a major New Jersey law firm, and the state’s most powerful Democratic powerbroker, spent his career as a labor leader. Norcross served as president of the...

Labor Leader: Paul J. Krebs, last president of NJ CIO served one-term in Congress

September 5, 2022 12:07 amSeptember 4, 2022 3:49 pm

The last New Jersey Democrat to lose a U.S. Senate race in New Jersey was Paul Krebs (1912-1996), labor leader and one-term congressman from Livingston. His story involves one of the great New Jersey labor union feuds. The account starts...

For Weinberg, it’s the same fight in different centuries

May 13, 2022 7:55 pmMay 13, 2022 8:49 pm

Nearly 50 years ago, six month before the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision, a young delegate from Teaneck went to the 1972 Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach to fight for the inclusion a reproductive freedom plank...