Millicent Fenwick Archives

Dan Todd, former assemblyman, brother of governor, dies at 82

June 4, 2021 2:23 pmJune 4, 2021 2:37 pm

Webster B. Todd, Jr., a former assemblyman, Nixon White House aide, and the brother of former Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, has died. He was 82. Known as Dan Todd, he was a member of one of New Jersey’s most prominent...

New Jersey holds at 12 congressional seats

April 26, 2021 11:25 amApril 27, 2021 1:42 am

This story was updated at 3:29 PM and again at 3:38 PM. With a population of 9,288,994, New Jersey will remain at 12 congressional seats for the next decade following the 2020 U.S. Census, said Dr. Ron S. Jarmin, the...

NJ-11 ’20 race just 5th time in N.J. history where two women ran for Congress

February 9, 2021 12:26 amFebruary 9, 2021 10:38 am

One takeaway from the race between Mikie Sherrill and Rosemary Becchi in New Jersey’s the 11th district in 2020: since women won the right to vote in 1920, this is just the 5th time both major parties have nominated a...

NJ-11 race just 5th time in N.J. history where two women ran for Congress

October 12, 2020 12:01 pm

One takeaway from the race between Mikie Sherrill and Rosemary Becchi in New the 11th district: since women won the right to vote in 1920, this is just the 5th time both major parties have nominated a woman to run...

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...

Al Angrisani, former Reagan administration official, dies at 70

May 2, 2020 4:45 pm

Albert Angrisani, who played a key role in Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign in New Jersey and then served as Assistant U.S. Secretary of Labor, died on April 23. He was 70. Angrisani began his political career in 1976 as...

Is Ocean County a hotbed of misogyny? Look at the numbers.

March 7, 2020 12:03 pmMarch 8, 2020 4:15 pm

A vote by Ocean County Republicans to pick a man over a woman in the race for Congress this week is consistent with a track record of not running women for office over the last 100 years. The chain might...