Peter Frelinghuysen Archives - New Jersey Globe

Some Kean for Congress history

April 16, 2019 5:47 pm

If Tom Kean, Jr. unseats Tom Malinowski next year, he’ll be the first Kean to win a congressional seat since 1956 – and the first in his family to oust an incumbent since 1938. Some Kean family history, as it...

Frelinghuysen career comes to a close

January 3, 2019 8:50 amJanuary 3, 2019 8:54 am

The most frustrating thing for Rodney Proctor Frelinghuysen as his time in Congress comes to an end a few hours from now, has got to be that he reached the pinnacle of his political career – chairman of the powerful...

George H.W. Bush dies; last Republican presidential candidate to carry New Jersey

December 1, 2018 11:20 amDecember 3, 2018 2:50 pm

George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st President of the United States and the last Republican presidential candidate to carry New Jersey, died on Friday night. He was 94. Bush had strong ties in New Jersey during his long political career. ...

The Carpetbagger

October 18, 2018 10:43 pmOctober 19, 2018 8:57 pm

Since Leonard Lance called Tom Malinowski a carpetbagger in last night’s debate – an unfair allegation, since Malinowski grew up in a town next door to the current boundaries of district – here’s a great story about carpetbagging that comes...

A great NJ labor union feud and the last Democrat to lose a U.S. Senate race

April 22, 2018 2:51 pmApril 23, 2018 11:36 pm

The last New Jersey Democrat to lose a U.S. Senate race in New Jersey was Paul Krebs, labor leader and one-term congressman from Livingston. His story involves one of the great New Jersey labor union feuds. The account starts in...

How Rodney’s father got to Congress

February 2, 2018 8:22 pm

It’s a revival of an old play that opened in 1952: Congressman Charles Eaton (R-Watching) decided to retire and gave Republicans less than four months to find a candidate for his safe seat: all of Somerset and Morris, and northern...

The story of Rodney’s long and painful path to Congress

January 4, 2018 12:11 amFebruary 4, 2019 9:15 pm

The most frustrating thing for Rep. Rodney Proctor Frelinghuysen has got to be that he’s reached the pinnacle of his political career, only to face the inconvenience of an election. He’s being tagged as out of touch; that’s something incumbents...