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Trailblazer: Senator Hutchins Inge

January 20, 2020 12:57 amJanuary 20, 2020 12:49 am

Hutchins Inge (1900-2002) was the first African American 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...

Trailblazer: Justice James Coleman, Jr.

January 20, 2020 12:49 amJanuary 20, 2020 12:42 am

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

Trailblazer: Commissioner Horace Bryant, Sr.

January 20, 2020 12:46 amJanuary 20, 2020 12:44 am

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...

New Jersey governors and presidential primaries

January 15, 2020 8:19 amJanuary 15, 2020 8:29 am

Gov. Phil Murphy will be 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 n the June...

C. Robert Sarcone, former senator and gubernatorial candidate, dies at 94

January 13, 2020 6:30 pm

Former State Sen. C. Robert Sarcone (R-Newark), the former Minority Leader of the New Jersey State Assembly and a candidate for the GOP nomination for Governor in 1977, died on January 12. He was 94. A talented trial lawyer and...

The Road to Mike Testa

December 2, 2019 12:23 amDecember 2, 2019 2:45 pm

When Michael Testa., Jr. takes his seat in the New Jersey State Senate next week, he will become just the sixth senator to represent the 1st legislative district since it was created in 1973 when New Jersey first adopted a...

William J. Hamilton, former Assembly Speaker, dies at 86

October 12, 2019 4:28 pmOctober 13, 2019 3:11 pm

Former Assembly Speaker William J. Hamilton, Jr., a skilled legislator with a reputation for integrity and independence, died on Thursday. He was 86. A product of John A. Lynch, Sr.’s New Brunswick political organization, Hamilton served six years in the...