Webster Todd Archives - New Jersey Globe

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...

Onetime N.J. GOP leader dies of Covid after being exposed to someone who refused vaccination

August 4, 2021 8:29 amAugust 4, 2021 8:54 am

Clark R. Allen, the founder of the Clinton First Aid and Rescue Squad and a major player in New Jersey Republican politics in the 1960s, died of complications related to COVID-19 after exposure to someone who declined to be vaccinated....

Dan Todd, former assemblyman, brother of governor, dies at 82

June 4, 2021 2:23 pmJune 4, 2021 2:37 pm

Webster B. Todd, Jr., a former assemblyman, Nixon White House aide, and the brother of former Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, has died. He was 82. Known as Dan Todd, he was a member of one of New Jersey’s most prominent...

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...

Whitman, who grew up Republican, now backing Biden

August 17, 2020 3:03 pmAugust 17, 2020 3:36 pm

When Christine Todd Whitman was six-years-old, Republican vice presidential candidate Richard Nixon campaign in Somerset County and she was asked to present a gift of some dolls for Nixon’s daughters to play with. She was a Republican born into a...

Christie Whitman will back Biden in Democratic convention speech

August 17, 2020 11:37 amAugust 17, 2020 3:03 pm

Christine Todd Whitman, a former two-term Republican governor of New Jersey, will address the Democratic National Convention tonight in support of Joe Biden for president. The former governor is among a group of Republican speakers that include former Ohio Gov....

Key moment for Nixon was when 18 New Jersey Republicans bolted from Case

February 17, 2020 12:12 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...