Bob Dole turns 96
Bob Dole, who turned 96 today, served with 27 New Jerseyans during his 35 years in Congress — five in the Senate, where he represented Kansas from 1969 to 1996, and 22 in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he...
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A Tom Kean ‘what-if’
This is one of those alternate universe stories about what might have been, had the things went a little differently in Trenton. In a redistricting deal made by the leaders of the New Jersey Legislature in 1966, one of three...
Some history on the 11th
Tracking the lineage of New Jersey’s 11th district House seat, up for grabs this fall now that Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-Harding) is retiring after 24 years, is complicated. The current district has been Republican since 1984, when a panel of...
A great NJ labor union feud and the last Democrat to lose a U.S. Senate race
The last New Jersey Democrat to lose a U.S. Senate race in New Jersey was Paul Krebs, labor leader and one-term congressman from Livingston. His story involves one of the great New Jersey labor union feuds. The account starts in...