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Tag: Lyndon Johnson

Morris went blue at the top, remained red in the middle

November 20, 2020   11:39 amNovember 20, 2020   1:44 pm
While the official certification of election results are still a few hours away, it’s clear that Joe Biden won Morris County. Biden leads Donald Trump by 12,747 votes countywide, 51% to 47%.  In 2016, Trump won it by 10,822 votes,...
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Labor Leader: Paul J. Krebs, last president of NJ CIO served one-term in Congress

September 7, 2020   12:01 amSeptember 6, 2020   12:24 am
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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Michael Piarulli, former Camden freeholder and 1966 congressional candidate, dies at 93

August 27, 2020   12:38 pmAugust 27, 2020   2:09 pm
Michael J. Piarulli, a former Camden County freeholder and the 1966 Democratic candidate for Congress in New Jersey’s 1st district, died on August 21.  He was 94. He entered local politics in 1959 when he came the Camden City Solicitor...
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Paul Porreca, New Jersey’s longest-living congressional candidate, dies at 85

August 15, 2020   11:08 amAugust 17, 2020   12:52 am
Paul R. Porreca, a respected former Superior Court Judge who was New Jersey’ longest-living candidate for Congress, died on Friday night.  He was 85. Porreca was a 27-year-old Millville city commissioner when he became the Democratic congressional candidate in 1962...
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Trump names GOP donor as postmaster general. Could that mean the return of local postmasters as congressional picks?

May 8, 2020   1:50 pmJuly 21, 2020   10:39 am
President Donald Trump named a top Republican contributor as the new Postmaster General, returning the post to a political appointee for the first time in 48 years. Post offices were once the ultimate patronage pits for political organizations, some of...
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New Jersey’s longest-living congressional candidate

April 13, 2020   1:15 pmApril 13, 2020   10:11 pm
The coronavirus-related death last week of Martin S. Fox, a 95-year-old Millburn Democrat who ran for Congress against Rep. Robert W. Kean (R-Livingston) in 1952 and 1954, leaves an 85-year-old Millville man as the longest-living New Jersey congressional candidate. Paul...
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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...
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