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Tag: Richard Hughes

Trailblazer: Senator Hutchins Inge

January 18, 2021   12:13 amJanuary 17, 2021   11:30 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...
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Trailblazer: Justice James J. Coleman

January 18, 2021   12:05 amJanuary 16, 2021   10:36 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...
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Trailblazer: Commissioner Horace Bryant, Sr.

January 18, 2021   12:02 amJanuary 16, 2021   10:20 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...
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Warren County has produced five nominees for statewide office

December 21, 2020   12:01 amDecember 21, 2020   1:32 pm
Warren may be the third-smallest county in New Jersey, but it has generated an outsized number of statewide candidates. The latest in Doug Steinhardt, a former mayor of Lopatcong who is seeking the Republican nomination for governor. The last governor...
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New Jersey tends to elect a new governor in the year a new president takes office

December 9, 2020   1:04 pmDecember 9, 2020   7:25 pm
Newly elected presidents are almost always followed by new governors of New Jersey. Since 1953, ten new presidents saw New Jersey elect a new governor in their inauguration year, and the president saw a governor of the opposite political party...
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Coughlin names new SCI member

October 27, 2020   8:26 pm
Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin today appointed Kevin R. Reina, an attorney from Summit, to the State Commission of Investigation. He will succeed John A. Hoffman, who was named to the post in 2018 by Coughlin.  Hoffman has resigned, effective Saturday....
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Labor Leader: James Mitchell and Raymond Donovan

September 7, 2020   12:07 amSeptember 6, 2020   7:18 pm
Two New Jerseyans have served as U.S. Secretary of Labor, both construction company executives named by Republican presidents for their close ties to organized labor. James P. Mitchell (1900-1964) grew up in Elizabeth and worked in the administration of President...
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