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Trailblazer: Assistant U.S. Attorney Oliver Randolph

January 16, 2023   12:08 amJanuary 15, 2023   11:43 pm
Oliver Randolph (1877-1951) was the only African American member of the 1947 New Jersey Constitutional Convention. In that post, he led a fight that successfully banned discrimination in New Jersey’s public schools and the National Guard. Born in Virginia, Randolph...
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Labor Leader: Joel Jacobson picked a public fight with Frank Sinatra

September 5, 2022   12:15 amSeptember 8, 2022   3:47 pm
One of the great New Jersey fights of the 1970s was between labor leader Joel R. Jacobson (1918-1989) and Frank Sinatra. Sinatra and Dean Martin were playing blackjack before their performance at the Golden Nugget Casino in Atlantic City in...
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Labor Leader: ex-Yankees pitcher later served as N.J. Commissioner of Labor

September 5, 2022   12:14 amSeptember 4, 2022   3:46 pm
Before Bill Bradley, there was Harry C. Harper. Known as “Hackensack Harry,” Harper spent ten seasons as a major league baseball pitcher.  The big left-hander was the starting pitcher for the New York Yankees game six of the 1921 World...
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Labor Leader: Vincent J. Murphy was NJ AFL-CIO president, two-term Mayor of Newark

September 5, 2022   12:10 amSeptember 4, 2022   4:08 pm
One of the most influential labor leaders in New Jersey history was Vincent J. Murphy (1893-1976), who spent nine years as the president of the New Jersey AFL-CIO after two terms as the Mayor of Newark.  He was the Democratic...
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Labor Leader: Lewis Bryant was the first N.J. Commissioner of Labor

September 5, 2022   12:00 amSeptember 4, 2022   3:32 pm
Lewis T. Bryant was New Jersey’s first Commissioner of Labor. After the New Jersey Legislature created the Department of Labor in 1904 – the predecessor position was Inspector of Factories and Workshops — Gov. Franklin Murphy nominated Bryant to fill...
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Veteran: George Washington Goethals

May 30, 2022   12:00 amMay 29, 2022   6:14 pm
One New Jersey war veteran whose legacy remains intact after more than a century was Major Genera George Washington Goethals, the namesake of the Goethals Bridge. Goethals was an 1880 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and...
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Trailblazer: Assistant U.S. Attorney Oliver Randolph

January 17, 2022   12:04 amJanuary 16, 2022   4:47 pm
Oliver Randolph (1877-1951) was the only African American member of the 1947 New Jersey Constitutional Convention. In that post, he led a fight that successfully banned discrimination in New Jersey’s public schools and the National Guard. Born in Virginia, Randolph...
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