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Labor Leader: Lewis Bryant was the first N.J. Commissioner of Labor

September 6, 2021 12:09 amSeptember 5, 2021 6:03 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...

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

September 6, 2021 12:02 amSeptember 7, 2021 8:53 am

As New Jerseyans celebrate Labor Day, here are six labor leaders of the last whose names ought not slip from the memories of those who closely follow politics and the state labor movement. Frank Forst served as vice president of...

Veteran: George Washington Goethals

May 31, 2021 12:01 amMay 30, 2021 10:46 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...

2020 was a bad year for Woodrow Wilson

February 15, 2021 12:09 amFebruary 13, 2021 6:27 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...

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

February 15, 2021 12:08 amFebruary 13, 2021 6:27 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...

Trailblazer: Alice Paul

February 9, 2021 12:06 amFebruary 7, 2021 5:54 pm

New Jerseyan Alice Paul (1885-1966) was one of the national leaders of the grassroots American suffragist movement that secured passage and ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution giving women the right to vote. Paul spent nearly fifty...

The history of Malinowski’s congressional seat

November 23, 2020 12:01 amJanuary 3, 2021 1:51 pm

The re-election of Tom Malinowski marked the third time in more than 100 years that New Jersey’s 7th district elected and re-elected a Democrat. Before Malinowski unseated five-term Rep. Leonard Lance (R-Clinton Township) in 2018, Republicans had held the 7th...