Peter Cavicchia Archives - New Jersey Globe

An exclusive N.J. club: 11 who came within 1,000 votes of winning a congressional seat

May 10, 2024 6:51 amMay 10, 2024 1:37 pm

One of the most exclusive clubs in New Jersey politics belongs to the group of eleven men who over the last 100 years came within 1,000 votes of winning a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives: John McCloskey, Edward O’Neill,...

Thomas Edison’s daughter couldn’t beat the line in congressional primary

August 4, 2019 7:00 pmAugust 5, 2019 9:56 am

In case you missed it: a 1938 congressional primary where Thomas Edison’s daughter couldn’t win off the line against the organization choice, a municipal court judge from East Orange. Two years earlier, in President Franklin Roosevelt’s re-election year, 33-year-old Edward...