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Trailblazer: Senator Hutchins Inge

January 19, 2026 12:06 amJanuary 18, 2026 9:41 pm

Hutchins Inge (1900-2002) was the first Black to serve in the New Jersey State Senate. A Newark physician, Inge was elected to the Senate in 1965, unseated Republican Senate Minority Leader C. Robert Sarcone by 7,144 votes. The opportunity for...

Trailblazer: Senator Hutchins Inge

January 20, 2025 12:20 amJanuary 19, 2025 9:18 pm

Hutchins Inge (1900-2002) was the first Black to serve in the New Jersey State Senate. A Newark physician, Inge was elected to the Senate in 1965, unseated Republican Senate Minority Leader C. Robert Sarcone by 7,144 votes. The opportunity for...

Trailblazer: Senator Hutchins Inge

January 15, 2024 12:12 amJanuary 14, 2024 5:10 pm

Hutchins Inge (1900-2002) was the first Black to serve in the New Jersey State Senate. A Newark physician, Inge was elected to the Senate in 1965, unseated Republican Senate Minority Leader C. Robert Sarcone by 7,144 votes. The opportunity for...

A look at the 13 legislative districts hosting contested primaries in 2023

March 29, 2023 12:04 pmMarch 29, 2023 12:55 pm

Filing day has come and gone; though petition challenges and write-in candidacies could still shake some things up, we basically know who is running for the New Jersey Legislature this year and who isn’t. A total of 258 candidates filed...

Craig Stanley will run for Giblin’s seat, 15 years after leaving legislature

March 27, 2023 5:09 pmMarch 27, 2023 6:09 pm

Fifteen years after leaving office, former Assemblyman Craig Stanley is gunning for a comeback. The 67-year-old Stanley, a Democrat who represented the Newark-based 28th legislative district between 1996 and 2008, filed today to run for the Assembly in the suburban...

The filing deadline is 17 days away, but primary season is already cooling down

March 10, 2023 4:00 pmMarch 13, 2023 3:13 am

The filing deadline for New Jersey’s 2023 primary is still 17 days away; the primary itself is a full 71 days after that. But thanks in large part to the power of the county line, primary season is already calming...

Timberlake files for long-anticipated State Senate bid

February 21, 2023 12:01 pm

Assemblywoman Britnee Timberlake (D-East Orange) has filed paperwork with the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission for a State Senate campaign in the 34th district, a long-expected development in a tumultuous year for Essex County politics. Assuming she wins the...