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New Jersey governors and presidential primaries

February 21, 2022 12:20 amFebruary 19, 2022 4:26 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy was the first governor to stay out of the presidential race in 28 years, leaving Democratic county chairs — and in some cases, Democratic County Committee members — to award the organization line in the 2020 New...

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

February 21, 2022 12:16 amFebruary 20, 2022 5:05 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...

Trailblazer: Senator Hutchins Inge

January 17, 2022 12:11 amFebruary 9, 2022 2:27 pm

Hutchins Inge (1900-2002) was the first Black to serve in the New Jersey State Senate. A Newark physician, Inge was elected to the Senate in 1965, unseated Republican Senate Minority Leader C. Robert Sarcone by 7,144 votes. The opportunity for...

Trailblazer: Commissioner Horace Bryant, Sr.

January 17, 2022 12:01 amJanuary 16, 2022 5:34 pm

Horace Bryant, Jr. (1909-1983) was the first African American to serve in the cabinet of a New Jersey governor. Richard J. Hughes appointed him to serve as commissioner of Banking and Insurance in 1969. Bryant had spent over 40 years...

Trailblazer: Justice James J. Coleman

January 17, 2022 12:00 amJanuary 16, 2022 3:50 pm

James H. Coleman, Jr., 85, the son of a sharecropper who was forced to attend racially segregated public schools in Lawrenceville, was the first Black to serve on the New Jersey Supreme Court. Coleman joined the New Jersey Department of...

Here are some things you might not know about New Jersey governor’s races

October 31, 2021 3:43 pmOctober 31, 2021 3:48 pm

As you follow Tuesday’s New Jersey gubernatorial election between Gov. Phil Murphy and Republican challenger Jack Ciattarelli, here’s some trivia to think about: Start with the usual: Democratic governors rarely win re-election. The last Democratic governor to win a second...

15 things you should know about the new legislative redistricting tiebreaker

October 8, 2021 11:22 amOctober 9, 2021 12:01 am

For a brief period of time over the next few months, former Superior Court Judge Philip S. Carchman will be the most arduously romanced man in New Jersey with the political futures of 120 state legislators potentially under his control....