Harrison Williams Archives - New Jersey Globe

Key moment for Nixon was when 18 New Jersey Republicans bolted from Case

February 17, 2020 12:12 pm

For some time, presidential primaries in New Jersey where nothing more than beauty contests where the preferred candidate of a voter was deemed so unimportant that their names did not appear on the ballot. Instead, voters had to wrote in...

Union County vote is first in GOP U.S. Senate race

January 29, 2020 5:48 pmJanuary 29, 2020 5:50 pm

Union County will be the first GOP organization to take sides in the race for U.S. Senate when they hold their convention this evening. Republicans have lost the last sixteen races for U.S. Senate in New Jersey and haven’t won...

Fran Rein, Democratic consultant who ran Kennedy NJ campaign, dies at 75

October 14, 2019 11:29 amOctober 14, 2019 4:02 pm

Fran Rein, one of New Jersey’s top Democratic political operatives in the 1970s and 1980s, died this morning. She was 75. In 1980, Rein became Ted Kennedy’s New Jersey State Director during his bid to wrestle the Democratic presidential nomination...

Labor: How a Texas primary helped focus unions on Pete Williams

September 2, 2019 3:42 pm

New Jersey Republicans, as they frequently do, convinced themselves that they could win a U.S. Senate seat in 1970. The two-term Democratic incumbent, Harrison Williams, was facing a challenge from Republican State Chairman Nelson Gross, a former State Senator from...

ERA extension gets support from 6 of 12 New Jersey House members

July 28, 2019 4:18 pm

A resolution in Congress to extend the deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment has six co-sponsors from the New Jersey delegation: Reps. Tom Malinowski (D-Rocky Hill), Donald Norcross (D-Camden), Frank Pallone (D-Long Branch), Bill Pascrell (D-Paterson), Albio Sires...

Bob Dole turns 96

July 22, 2019 9:02 pmJuly 22, 2019 10:11 pm

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...

Some 1960s Bergen County political history

March 3, 2019 10:22 pmMarch 4, 2019 8:59 am

Until the U.S. Supreme Court’s one-man, one-vote ruling, Bergen County began the 1960’s with one state Senator – Walter Jones (R-Norwood) — and seven Assembly seats. Jones gave up that Senate seat after eight years in 1961 to run for...