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Tag: Hubert Humphrey

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...
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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...
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New Jersey governors and presidential primaries

February 21, 2022   12:20 amFebruary 19, 2022   4:26 pm
Gov. Phil Murphy was the first governor to stay out of the presidential race in 28 years, leaving Democratic county chairs — and in some cases, Democratic County Committee members — to award the organization line in the 2020 New...
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Key moment for Nixon was when 18 New Jersey Republicans bolted from Case

February 21, 2022   12:16 amFebruary 20, 2022   5:05 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...
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LBJ, Nixon swept all 21 New Jersey counties

February 21, 2022   12:11 amFebruary 21, 2022   3:57 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....
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Labor Leader: George Norcross spent 16 years as South Jersey AFL-CIO president

September 6, 2021   12:08 amSeptember 4, 2021   3:41 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...
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Labor Leader: Paul J. Krebs, last president of NJ CIO served one-term in Congress

September 6, 2021   12:07 amSeptember 4, 2022   3:48 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...
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