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Calvin West cemetery full of powerful Essex politicians

December 8, 2019 3:21 pm

Calvin West is all politics, even in death. The legendary political figure who died this week at age 87, will be buried on Monday at the Fairmount Cemetery in Newark, the final resting place of some prominent New Jersey political...

Maps: Sanders vs. Clinton in NJ-5

August 2, 2019 8:51 amAugust 4, 2019 3:48 pm

One of the few bright spots for Democrats in the 2016 election when Josh Gottheimer, a former Clinton White House speechwriter, ousted controversial Republican Rep. Scott Garrett. After seven terms as a congressman, Garrett was under fire comments made about...

Darling win would set up January freeholder fight

February 25, 2019 2:57 pmFebruary 25, 2019 5:29 pm

If Heather Darling wins her bid for Morris County Surrogate, it would trigger a special election convention for her freeholder seat. The winner would serve the remainder of her term, which is up in 2020. There’s no guarantee that she...

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

February 18, 2019 5:39 amFebruary 18, 2019 4:49 am

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...

Two 2020 Democratic presidential candidates grew up in Bergen County

February 1, 2019 6:59 amFebruary 1, 2019 7:57 am

U.S. Senator Cory Booker wants to be the first New Jerseyan to win the presidency since Gov. Woodrow Wilson in 1912. In 1960, New Jersey’s delegates to the Democratic National Convention were pledged to Gov. Robert Meyner, the favorite-son candidate....

The best party switching story ever

January 28, 2019 9:45 pmJanuary 29, 2019 2:47 am

It should come as no surprise to New Jerseyans that the greatest party switching story comes out of Hudson County. In 1954, ten-term Rep. Edward Hart (D-Jersey City) gave up his congressional seat so that he could get an appointment...

Three New Jersey insiders you’ve probably never heard of

December 27, 2018 11:17 am

Joseph Tumulty was probably the most powerful political insider in New Jersey history, serving as Woodrow Wilson’s chief of staff through his two years as governor and eight years as president. The scion of a politically active Jersey City family...