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Tag: Richard Nixon

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

February 15, 2021   12:12 amFebruary 13, 2021   6:27 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...
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Trailblazer: Congressman Donald Payne Sr.

January 18, 2021   12:10 amJanuary 17, 2021   1:57 pm
Donald Payne, Sr. (1934-2012) was the first Black  to represent New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives. He had run for Congress twice before winning the seat in 1988. In 1970, Payne became the first African American to serve...
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David Dichter, who ran for Congress against Charles Sandman in 1968, dies at 89

January 3, 2021   12:21 pm
Dr. David Dichter, the Democratic candidate for Congress against Rep. Charles W. Sandman (R-Erma) in 1968, died on December 28.  He was 89. Dichter was the second longest-living former New Jersey congressional candidate, after Richard J. Trainor, 91, the Democratic...
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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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Veterans: Frelinghuysen and Kean families

November 11, 2020   12:02 amNovember 11, 2020   1:03 pm
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...
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Here’s how N.J. Senators voted on some of Trump’s Supreme Court short list

September 20, 2020   7:19 pmSeptember 20, 2020   11:52 pm
President Donald Trump says he will nominate a woman to fill the U.S. Supreme Court seat on the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, leaving two conservative circuit court judges as the front-runners for the lifetime appointment. Barbara Lagoa, a former Florida...
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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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