Woodrow Wilson Archives - New Jersey Globe

Here are seven labor leaders – big deals in their day – that you should know about

September 5, 2022 12:17 amSeptember 4, 2022 4:14 pm

As New Jerseyans celebrate Labor Day, here are seven labor leaders of the last whose names ought not slip from the memories of those who closely follow politics and the state labor movement. Hetty Rosenstein is one of the most...

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...

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...

In U.S. Supreme Court, New Jersey beats New York

March 24, 2022 11:16 am

New Jersey doesn’t file many lawsuits against New York, but when they do, they win. That puts a little pressure on Gov. Phil Murphy and his administration as they prepare for battle against New York over the shutdown of the...

How Sacco got to the N.J. Senate

February 24, 2022 9:02 am

When Nicholas Sacco decided he wanted the 32nd district Senate seat nearly 30 years ago, two years after he became Mayor of North Bergen, he just took it. The incumbent in 1993 was Thomas Cowan of the Operating Engineers union,...

Wilson helped New Jersey Democrats sweep in 1912, then lost the state in 1916

February 21, 2022 12:07 amFebruary 19, 2022 4:09 pm

Democrat Woodrow Wilson remains the only New Jerseyan to win the presidency, but the former governor of New Jersey only carried New Jersey in one of his two White House bids. Wilson was elected in 1912, at the end of...

2020 was a bad year for Woodrow Wilson

February 21, 2022 12:00 amFebruary 19, 2022 4:14 pm

History hit the reset button on Woodrow Wilson in 2020. Ninety-six years after his death, the 13th president of Princeton University, 34th Governor of New Jersey and 28th President of the United States faced a reckoning with what New Jersey’s...