No legislative district in the state has gone longer without electing a Democrat than the 40th, which includes parts of Bergen, Passaic, Morris and Essex counties. It’s been 54 years since a Democrat won an Assembly seat there, which makes...
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...
Robert E. Hamer, who served as an Assemblyman from Bergen County and as a Superior Court Judge, died on July 4. He was 88. The New Jersey Globe regrets missing his passing, as The (Bergen) Record surely does as well....