Nelson Gross Archives - New Jersey Globe

Republicans leaders press Steinhardt on using GOP chairmanship to promote his gubernatorial ambitions

June 25, 2020 12:01 amJune 25, 2020 11:49 am

The nascent contest for next year’s gubernatorial election heated up just a little on a Tuesday night conference call when Republican State Chairman Doug Steinhardt was questioned about his use of the state party to advance his possible challenge to...

It’s 8 PM and the polls are supposed to be closing

June 2, 2020 8:00 pmJune 3, 2020 12:01 am

It’s 8 PM and I’m supposed to say that the polls are now closed in New Jersey, even in Cedar Grove. The primary election was supposed to be today, but in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus,...

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...

Key moment for Nixon was when 18 New Jersey Republicans bolted from Case

February 17, 2020 12:12 pm

For some time, presidential primaries in New Jersey where nothing more than beauty contests where the preferred candidate of a voter was deemed so unimportant that their names did not appear on the ballot. Instead, voters had to wrote in...

Labor: How a Texas primary helped focus unions on Pete Williams

September 2, 2019 3:42 pm

New Jersey Republicans, as they frequently do, convinced themselves that they could win a U.S. Senate seat in 1970. The two-term Democratic incumbent, Harrison Williams, was facing a challenge from Republican State Chairman Nelson Gross, a former State Senator from...

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...

Michael Ferrara, former assemblyman, dies at 96

March 3, 2019 5:00 pm

Michael J. Ferrara, who served in the New Jersey State Assembly from 1968 to 1970, died on March 1. He was 96. Ferrara has served National UNICO president and became the Maywood borough attorney in 1955. He was the Maywood...