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Labor Leader: Fay was elected Local 825 leader for life

September 7, 2020 12:50 am

Joseph S. Fay (1892-1972) spent decades as one of New Jersey’s most politically influential labor leaders, but a scandal that landed him in prison also changed the outcome of a race for governor of New Jersey. Fay was the business...

Peter Cartmell, elected to office in 1948, dies at 98

February 29, 2020 4:19 pmMarch 2, 2020 11:22 am

Former Rumson mayor Peter Cartmell, an immigrant who won his first election 71 years ago and later led the fight to admit women and blacks to the all-male, all-white Essex Club, died on February 22. He was 98. The Monmouth...

New Jersey liked Ike, but Warren Harding set the record

February 17, 2020 12:09 amFebruary 16, 2020 6:56 pm

New Jersey loved Warren Harding. In the 1920 presidential election, Harding won 68% of the vote in New Jersey. He won all 21 counties, and the GOP won 59 of the state’s 60 State Assembly seats. Calvin Coolidge took 62%...

New Jersey governors and presidential primaries

January 15, 2020 8:19 amJanuary 15, 2020 8:29 am

Gov. Phil Murphy will be 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 n the June...

Judge Arthur Troast, son of 1953 GOP gubernatorial candidate, dies at 90

July 27, 2019 2:32 pmJuly 27, 2019 2:33 pm

Arthur Troast, a former Superior Court Judge whose father was the 1953 Republican nominee for Governor of New Jersey, died on July 24. He was 90. Troast was appointed as a judge of the Bergen County Juvenile and Domestic Relations...

New Jersey liked Ike, but Warren Harding set the record

February 18, 2019 5:41 amFebruary 18, 2019 6:49 am

New Jersey loved Warren Harding. In the 1920 presidential election, Harding won 68% of the vote in New Jersey. He won all 21 counties, and the GOP won 59 of the state’s 60 State Assembly seats. Calvin Coolidge took 62%...

Three New Jersey insiders you’ve probably never heard of

December 27, 2018 11:17 am

Joseph Tumulty was probably the most powerful political insider in New Jersey history, serving as Woodrow Wilson’s chief of staff through his two years as governor and eight years as president. The scion of a politically active Jersey City family...