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Tag: Marion West Higgins

Muñoz has votes to become new Assembly minority leader

October 15, 2021   5:28 pmOctober 17, 2021   9:46 am
Nancy Muñoz appears set to become the next minority leader of the New Jersey State Assembly after forging a coalition with John DiMaio, the New Jersey Globe has learned. DiMaio (R-Hackettstown) will drop his bid for the post and become...
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Trailblazer: Marion West Higgins

February 9, 2021   12:14 amFebruary 7, 2021   9:10 pm
Marion West Higgins (1915-1991) was the first woman to serve as Speaker of the New Jersey State Assembly. The Bergen County Republican was also the first woman to serve as Assembly Majority Leader, and the first woman to serve as...
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Jeremiah F. O’Connor, former state senator, dies at 86

May 14, 2020   2:36 pmMay 14, 2020   6:17 pm
Jeremiah F. O’Connor, an affable Democrat who won a State Senate seat at age 31 and sponsored a bill to give 18-year-olds the right to vote, died on May 13.  He was 86. O’Connor, who served two terms on the...
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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...
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