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Flashback: New Jerseyans on Nixon resignation in 1974

August 9, 2020 8:21 pmAugust 9, 2020 8:26 pm

Richard M. Nixon resigned as President of the United States 46 years ago today, just as the U.S. House of Representatives was about to impeach him for his role in the Watergate scandal: “I have never been a quitter. To...

Veterans: Frelinghuysen and Kean families

May 25, 2020 12:10 amMay 25, 2020 12:16 am

When you trace the roots of the Frelinghuysen family back to the American Revolution, you can start with Frederick Frelinghuysen, who was the very model of a modern Major-General. Frelinghuysen was a colonel in the Continental Army before his election...

Richard Schaub, state banking commissioner under Cahill and Byrne, dies at 88

May 16, 2020 5:35 pm

Richard F. Schaub, who served in the cabinets of Governors William Cahill and Brendan Byrne, died on May 12 after complications from surgery. He was 88. Schaub served as New Jersey Commissioner of Banking from 1972 to 1976 and was...

Trump names GOP donor as postmaster general. Could that mean the return of local postmasters as congressional picks?

May 8, 2020 1:50 pmJuly 21, 2020 10:39 am

President Donald Trump named a top Republican contributor as the new Postmaster General, returning the post to a political appointee for the first time in 48 years. Post offices were once the ultimate patronage pits for political organizations, some of...

New Jersey’s longest-living congressional candidate

April 13, 2020 1:15 pmApril 13, 2020 10:11 pm

The coronavirus-related death last week of Martin S. Fox, a 95-year-old Millburn Democrat who ran for Congress against Rep. Robert W. Kean (R-Livingston) in 1952 and 1954, leaves an 85-year-old Millville man as the longest-living New Jersey congressional candidate. Paul...

Threatening to run if he didn’t get the line almost cost Howard 24 years in Congress

April 12, 2020 3:51 pmApril 13, 2020 3:47 pm

A political misstep in a closed-door party screening committee might have cost James J. Howard the chance to spends 24 years as a Democratic congressman from a heavily Republican Monmouth-Ocean district. Howard, one of the most politically adept, naturally-gifted politicians...

Trump picks his New Jersey delegates

March 31, 2020 12:12 amMarch 31, 2020 1:22 am

Former Gov. Chris Christie will head Donald Trump’s slate of 46 New Jersey delegates to the Republican National Convention, according to a list of candidates designated by the Trump-Pence campaign. New Jersey has ten at-large delegates elected statewide, and each...