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Democrat who ran against Kean grandfather 67 years ago voting for Malinowski

April 18, 2019 1:49 pmApril 18, 2019 11:26 pm

Martin S. Fox was 28-years-old in 1952 when he challenged Rep. Robert W. Kean (R-Livingston) in a race for Congress. Now 94 and New Jersey’s longest living congressional candidate, the Millburn resident said he expects to vote for Rep. Tom...

Some 1960s Bergen County political history

March 3, 2019 10:22 pmMarch 4, 2019 8:59 am

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...

Trailblazer: Senator Hutchins Inge

January 21, 2019 12:10 amJanuary 20, 2019 8:49 pm

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: Commissioner Horace Bryant, Sr.

January 21, 2019 12:05 amJanuary 20, 2019 7:17 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 Coleman, Jr.

January 21, 2019 12:00 amAugust 5, 2024 9:19 am

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

The Story of Sills

October 17, 2018 1:02 amOctober 17, 2018 1:03 am

A primer on gravitas-filled Arthur J. Sills, the respected founder of Peter Verniero’s law firm, Sills Cummis & Gross and for a time one of the New Jersey’s most powerful political insiders. After Harvard Law School, Sills went to work for...

One powerful crime fighting commission not what it used to be

October 10, 2018 5:38 pm

The New Jersey State Commission of Investigation (SCI) has a party scheduled tonight to celebrate their 50th anniversary, but some believe it should be a memorial service instead. There was a time when the SCI had real teeth, back in...