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6 unusual facts about Frank Lautenberg


Anne Evans Estabrook

In October 2007, Estabrook filed her candidacy as a Republican candidate for the 2008 United States Senate race in New Jersey to oppose incumbent Frank Lautenberg.

Barbara Boggs Sigmund

In 1982, she finished fourth out of nine in the 1982 New Jersey Democratic Senate primary, which was won by Frank Lautenberg (who has since served more than 20 years in the Senate).

Camille Andrews

Since Rob Andrews could not run for the Senate while seeking re-election for his House seat, Camille was accused of being a "placeholder," who would presumably cede candidacy in the general election to another Democrat, possibly her husband, were he to lose the Senate Democratic primary to incumbent Frank Lautenberg.

Gorgi Popstefanov

He interned in U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg’s office in 2008, was the first Policy and Diplomacy Fellow at United Macedonian Diaspora from 2008 to 2009, and served as a Foreign Affairs intern within the Cabinet of the President of Macedonia in 2010.

Sheila Oliver

On June 10, 2013, she formally announced that she would run in the special election for the senate seat held by Frank Lautenberg.

Stephen Orlofsky

On June 30, 1995, on the recommendation of U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, President Clinton nominated Orlofsky to become a U.S. district judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.


Bill Baroni

He was a driver for Assembly Speaker Chuck Haytaian in his campaign for U.S. Senator against Frank Lautenberg in 1994 and worked on the advance staff for the 1996 presidential campaign of Steve Forbes.

Cyberstalking legislation

In early March 2011, U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Representative Rush D. Holt, Jr. (D-NJ-12) introduced the "Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act," which would mandate that colleges and universities that receive federal funding have policies in place to address harassment—including cyberbullying.

Judy Goldsmith

In 1982 Goldsmith and NOW controversially endorsed Frank Lautenberg, the male, Democratic Senate opponent of New Jersey Republican feminist Congresswoman Millicent Fenwick, due to Fenwick's support of Reagan's economic agenda, despite her pro-women's rights stances.

Sexual abstinence

The Responsible Education About Life Act was introduced by Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Representatives Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Christopher Shays (R-CT) to support age-appropriate sexual education.


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