James Auchincloss Archives - New Jersey Globe

Threatening to run if he didn’t get the line almost cost Howard 24 years in Congress

April 12, 2020 3:51 pmApril 13, 2020 3:47 pm

A political misstep in a closed-door party screening committee might have cost James J. Howard the chance to spends 24 years as a Democratic congressman from a heavily Republican Monmouth-Ocean district. Howard, one of the most politically adept, naturally-gifted politicians...

Peter Cartmell, elected to office in 1948, dies at 98

February 29, 2020 4:19 pmMarch 2, 2020 11:22 am

Former Rumson mayor Peter Cartmell, an immigrant who won his first election 71 years ago and later led the fight to admit women and blacks to the all-male, all-white Essex Club, died on February 22. He was 98. The Monmouth...

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...

Thomas Gagliano, former Senate minority leader, dies at 87

April 14, 2019 12:09 pmApril 15, 2019 12:13 pm

Former New Jersey Senate Minority Leader S. Thomas Gagliano, a popular and respected legislator who served as executive director of New Jersey Transit, died on Saturday night. He was 87. A fixture in Monmouth County politics for seven decades, Gagliano...

The 2020 House Short List

April 17, 2018 9:55 amApril 18, 2018 10:18 am

If Patrick Murray is right and New Jersey sends twelve Democrats to the U.S. House of Representatives next year, the state would brace for another cycle of competitive congressional races in 2020 – this time with a mostly new crop...

The short list for Smith’s seat

January 14, 2018 1:20 pm

I don’t give much credence to rumors that Rep. Chris Smith (R-Mercer) will retire from Congress this year. But it’s reasonable to at least consider the possibility of retirement for any incumbent who has been in office for 38 years,...