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Bob Dole turns 96

July 22, 2019   9:02 pmJuly 22, 2019   10:11 pm
Bob Dole, who turned 96 today, served with 27 New Jerseyans during his 35 years in Congress — five in the Senate, where he represented Kansas from 1969 to 1996, and 22 in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he...
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William Walls, longtime federal judge, dies

July 15, 2019   8:07 pmJuly 16, 2019   12:24 pm
William Walls, who served 25 years as a federal judge in New Jersey, has died.  He was 86. The Star-Ledger first reported his passing. President Bill Clinton nominated Walls to serve as a U.S. District Court Judge in 1994, at...
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Trailblazer: Senator Wynona Lipman

January 21, 2019   12:25 amJanuary 21, 2019   12:00 am
Wynona M. Lipman (1923-1999) was the first African American woman to serve in the New Jersey State Senate.  She served as a Senator from 1972 until her death in 1999. Born in Georgia, she was a Fulbright scholar studying at...
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Trailblazer: Congressman Donald Payne, Sr.

January 21, 2019   12:16 amJanuary 21, 2019   12:39 am
Donald Payne, Sr. (1934-2012) was the first African American to represent New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives. He had run for Congress twice before winning the seat in 1988. In 1970, Payne became the first African American to...
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A Tom Kean ‘what-if’

December 9, 2018   6:28 pmDecember 9, 2018   6:37 pm
This is one of those alternate universe stories about what might have been, had the things went a little differently in Trenton. In a redistricting deal made by the leaders of the New Jersey Legislature in 1966, one of three...
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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...
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NJ Open House Seats rarely flip parties

January 14, 2018   5:08 pm
If Jeff Van Drew wins Frank LoBiondo’s seat in Congress, it will be just the sixth time since World War II that an open New Jersey House seat was won by the other party. Two of those were in 1948,...
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