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Veterans: Frelinghuysen, Kean and Malinowski families

May 30, 2022   12:07 amMay 29, 2022   6:33 pm
When you trace the roots of the Frelinghuysen family back to the American Revolution, you can start with Frederick Frelinghuysen, who was the very model of a modern Major-General. Frelinghuysen was a colonel in the Continental Army before his election...
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Veterans: Two N.J. Congressmen Who Placed Patriotism Above Politics

May 30, 2022   12:06 amMay 30, 2022   11:08 pm
Most people in New Jersey politics today probably never heard of Albert Vreeland or Frank Osmers, two young New Jersey Congressmen who placed patriotism above politics and the security of our nation ahead of their own political careers. Vreeland first...
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Veteran: George B. McClellan

May 30, 2022   12:03 amMay 29, 2022   6:10 pm
Orange resident George B. McClellan served as the Commanding General of the U.S. Army during the Civil War and later served one term as the Governor of New Jersey. He carried New Jersey as the Democratic nominee for president when...
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Veterans: Six World War I veterans elected to NJ Assembly

May 30, 2022   12:02 amMay 29, 2022   6:42 pm
Six young World War I veterans were elected to the New Jersey State Assembly during the first three years after the war ended: Francis A. Stanton (D-Hoboken) and Thomas Lloyd Lewis (R-Asbury Park) in 1918; Felix Forlenza (D-South Orange) and...
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Veterans: 17 New Jersey governors

May 30, 2022   12:01 amMay 30, 2022   11:09 pm
Seventeen of New Jersey’s 56 governors have served in the U.S. military. The last was Jon Corzine, who was in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve from 1969 to 1975. The first governor of New Jersey, William Livingston, was a Brigadier...
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Veterans: The Winners Of The 1789 Election For New Jersey’s First Congressional Election

May 30, 2022   12:01 amMay 30, 2022   11:09 pm
Five of the original six members of New Jersey’s congressional delegation in 1789 were veterans of the America War of Independence. Jonathan Elmer, one of the state’s two original United States Senators, was a captain of the a Militia company...
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Veteran: Samuel Cavileer

May 30, 2022   12:01 amMay 29, 2022   6:41 pm
Assemblyman Samuel H. Cavileer (R-Port Republic) was a 23-year-old mariner with a fleet coasting off the coast of Charleston when Fort Sumpter fell in April 1861. He returned home to New Jersey and immediately enlisted in the 4th New Jersey...
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