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Frank Pedulla, ex-mayor who won first local election 68 years ago, dies at 93

March 2, 2022 3:41 pmMarch 2, 2022 3:44 pm

Frank Pedulla, Jr., a Korean War veteran who was 26-years-old when he was elected to the Franklin Township Committee in Gloucester County in 1954, died on February 25. He was 93. Pedulla was likely among the last living New Jerseyans...

New Jersey governors and presidential primaries

February 21, 2022 12:20 amFebruary 19, 2022 4:26 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 21, 2022 12:16 amFebruary 20, 2022 5:05 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 21, 2022 12:11 amFebruary 20, 2022 9:37 pm

The withdrawal of two New Jerseyans from the campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination keeps Woodrow Wilson’s record intact as the last Garden Stater to win the presidency. Booker withdrew on January 13, 2019 and former Rep. John Delaney...

Robert Mulcahy, New Jersey icon, dies at 85

February 8, 2022 7:29 pm

Robert E. Mulcahy III, a former Mendham mayor who became one of the most powerful political insiders of his generation as the chief of staff to Gov. Brendan Byrne, died on February 8. He was 85. He served as the...

Trailblazer: Justice James J. Coleman

January 17, 2022 12:00 amJanuary 16, 2022 3:50 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...

Veterans Day : 17 New Jersey governors

November 11, 2021 12:04 amNovember 10, 2021 7:53 pm

Seventeen of New Jersey’s 56 governors have served in the U.S. military. The last was Jon Corzine, who was in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve from 1969 to 1975. The first governor of New Jersey, William Livingston, was a Brigadier...