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New Jersey governors and presidential primaries

February 15, 2021 12:13 amFebruary 14, 2021 7:02 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy was 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 in the 2020 New...

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...

New Jerseyans as presidential candidates

February 15, 2021 12:01 amFebruary 13, 2021 6:17 pm

The withdrawal of two New Jerseyans from the campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination last month keeps Woodrow Wilson’s record intact as the last Garden Stater to win the presidency. Booker withdrew on January 13 and former Rep. John...

Trailblazer: Thelma Parkinson Sharp

February 9, 2021 12:16 amFebruary 9, 2021 10:58 am

Thelma Parkinson Sharp (1898-1983) was the first woman to run for statewide office in New Jersey and the first woman to serve in the governor’s cabinet. At age 32, she is also the youngest person to ever win a statewide...

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...

John W. Noonan, assistant counsel to Gov. Meyner in 1950s, dies at 93

January 17, 2021 4:08 pm

John W. Noonan, who served as an Assistant Counsel to Gov. Robert Meyner in the 1950s, died on January 5. He was 93. Noonan joined Meyner’s staff in 1955 at age 27, after graduating Columbia University Law School and working...

Here’s how Loretta Weinberg can become Governor

January 14, 2021 5:34 pmJanuary 14, 2021 8:33 pm

There is a path for Loretta Weinberg to serve as Governor of New Jersey. Here’s how it works: if Steve Sweeney resigns as Senate President on the final day of the legislative session, the Senate can replace him with Weinberg....