After Shirley Chisholm won a House seat in 1968, she was assigned a seat on the House Agriculture Committee – not exactly the best perch for a Brooklyn congresswoman to oppose the Vietnam War and fight for her unprivileged constituents....
The last New Jersey Democrat to lose a U.S. Senate race in New Jersey was Paul Krebs, labor leader and one-term congressman from Livingston. His story involves one of the great New Jersey labor union feuds. The account starts in...