Kenneth Clark Archives - New Jersey Globe

The time the Burmeister twins ran against each other for Congress and one died

March 22, 2022 12:36 pmMarch 22, 2022 9:24 pm

Jack Hastings Burmeister and Jerry Charles Burmeister, twin brothers from Ocean Grove, each filed nominating petitions in 1974 as independent candidates for Congress in New Jersey’s 3rd district. They were challenging Rep. James Howard (D-Spring Lake Heights), who was at...

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

April 12, 2020 3:51 pmJuly 25, 2021 12:51 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...