She managed to beat incumbent State Sen. William E. Schluter in a year when Republicans battled the specter of the Watergate scandal and Democrats were buoyed by the landslide victory of Brendan Byrne as Governor of New Jersey.
Vail is best remembered as the first National Organizer of the Socialist Party of America and as a candidate of that party for Governor of New Jersey.
Settling in the town of Princeton, his beautiful estate, Drumthwacket, is now the official residence of the Governor of New Jersey.
The New Jersey gubernatorial election of 1997 was a race for Governor of New Jersey.
The New Jersey gubernatorial election of 2001 was a race for the Governor of New Jersey.
The New Jersey gubernatorial election of 2005 was a race for the Governor of New Jersey.
In 2012, the New Jersey Legislature had passed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage, but it was vetoed by Governor Chris Christie.
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Pennington was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Congressman Alexander Cummings McWhorter Pennington (1810–1867), the second cousin of New Jersey Governor and Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives William Pennington (1796–1862), and the grandnephew of New Jersey Governor William Sandford Pennington (1757–1826).
A 1701 petition to The Lords Commissioners of Trade and Foreign Plantations, signed by Lewis Morris and others, purporting to be "the Greatest part of ye Proprietors of the Provinces of East and West Jersie", recommended the appointment of Andrew Hamilton as Governor of New Jersey, at the same time cautioning against the appointment of Andrew Bowne to the office.
In February 2006, he had been appointed by then Governor of New Jersey Jon Corzine to the New Jersey Special Education Review Commission, a body tasked with developing recommendations on the educational needs of students with disabilities in the State of New Jersey.
They had three children: Robert Stockton Green (1787–1813), Jacob Green (1790–1842), and James Sproat Green (1792–1862), the latter of whom served as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey and was the father of Robert Stockton Green (1831–1895), Governor of New Jersey.
Cooper attended Centenary Junior College (now Centenary College of New Jersey) in Hackettstown, where she was a member of the Delta Sigma Sigma sorority and graduated in 1938 at ceremonies attended by Governor of New Jersey A. Harry Moore.
In 1977, Sarcone sought the Republican nomination for Governor of New Jersey, finishing third in a field of four candidates, behind State Senator Raymond Bateman and Assembly Minority Leader Thomas Kean.
Hardy's brother Josiah was a merchant and the Governor of New Jersey from 1761-63.
On 12 April 2007, N.J. Governor Jon Corzine was seriously injured in an automobile accident.
She was named acting commissioner on September 9, 2005, by former Governor of New Jersey Richard Codey.
Jon Corzine, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, Governor of New Jersey, and United States Senator, began his tenure as CEO of MF Global in March 2010.
Governor Jon Corzine had declared a state of emergency for the entire state as a result of the flooding.
The Casino Control Commission consists of three members appointed by the Governor of New Jersey with advice and consent of the New Jersey Senate.
The DGE is supervised by a director appointed by the governor with advice and consent of the New Jersey Senate.
The building is currently home to both chambers of the New Jersey Legislature (the New Jersey Senate and the New Jersey General Assembly), as well as offices for the Governor of New Jersey, Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey and several state government departments.
The museum was formally opened on April 14, 1988 by Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden accompanied by Governor of New Jersey Thomas Kean and his wife Deborah.
The New Jersey Legislature voted to abolish the death penalty in 2007, and the measure was signed into law by Governor Jon S. Corzine.
As part of the Republican landslide that year in the New Jersey Legislature in the wake of Governor of New Jersey Jim Florio's $2.8 billion tax increase package, Corman was elected to the Senate together with running mates Stephen A. Mikulak and Ernest L. Oros in the New Jersey General Assembly, defeating Laurence S. Weiss in the Senate and incumbent Democrat Thomas J. Deverin and his running mate Jay Ziznewski in the Assembly.
In 1985, when Shapiro was the Democratic candidate for Governor of New Jersey opposing incumbent Tom Kean, Durkin was named chairman of the New Jersey Democratic State Committee.
After its formation in 1716, Saddle River Township was split up in 1772 by royal decree with the northernmost half becoming Franklin Township, was named after Governor of New Jersey William Franklin, son of Benjamin Franklin.
The new Township was named after Governor of New Jersey William Franklin, son of Benjamin Franklin.
TD Bank Ballpark was opened by former New Jersey governor, Christine Todd Whitman, and other New Jersey officials on June 7, 1999, with the Patriots defeating the Newark Bears.
In 1943 Murphy ran as the Democratic candidate for Governor of New Jersey against Republican Walter Evans Edge, who had come out of retirement after serving as United States Senator and United States Ambassador to France, as well as Governor during World War I.
McCombs helped Woodrow Wilson become Governor of New Jersey and then managed Wilson's successful campaign for the 1912 Democratic presidential nomination.
Bassler was appointed to the New Jersey Superior Court in 1988 by then-governor Thomas Kean (R).
On March 11, 2003, Governor of New Jersey Jim McGreevey visited the nearby Lake Tappan reservoir and proposed protecting it, Woodcliff Lake and their tributaries with Category 1 water purity status.
Leon Abbett (1836-1894), American politician and Governor of New Jersey
This dinner and talk was attended by some 400 guests, including former US Vice-President Richard Nixon, former Governor of New Jersey and president of pharmaceutical company Warner-Lambert Alfred E. Driscoll, and Senator Joseph Lister Hill, with the wife of the latter recalling the event in her memoirs.
David Ogden Watkins (1862–1938), Acting Governor of New Jersey, 1898–1899
Frank J. Esposito, college history professor and independent candidate for Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey
Christine Todd Whitman (born September 26, 1946), 50th Governor of New Jersey
Ada married Frank Hoffman of New Jersey and had two sons; the future Governor of New Jersey Harold G. Hoffman and Donald Hoffman.
After Lewis M. Eisenberg left his post as Chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in September 2001, Sinagra was nominated by Acting Governor of New Jersey Donald DiFrancesco as his replacement.
There were replies from Charles Chauncy of Boston, in A Letter to a Friend, dated 10 December 1767, and in a Letter to Ewer himself, by William Livingston, governor of New Jersey, in 1768.
John Franklin Fort (1852–1920), American Republican Party politician, Governor of New Jersey 1908–1911
In 1988 the Governor of New Jersey, Thomas Kean, declared the week of April 24-30, 1988 as "Planning Week" in New Jersey on behalf of NJPO's 50th anniversary.
He was the second son of the future Governor of New Jersey Lewis Morris and Isabella Graham Morris, namesake of his father's friend the future colonial governor Robert Hunter.
Salter Path was passed from John A. Royal to Alice Green Hoffman, a distant relative of Theodore Roosevelt and daughter of Alfred Green, a former governor of New Jersey.
Thomas Kean (born 1935), former Governor of New Jersey, president of Drew University, and head of the 9/11 Commission
Joel Parker, the Governor of New Jersey, was nominated for the Vice Presidency.
William A. Newell (1817–1901), American physician and politician, Governor of New Jersey and Washington Territory