Just 22,091 votes separated John F. Kennedy from Richard M. Nixon in the contest for New Jersey’s sixteen electoral votes in the 1960 presidential election. Kennedy won 50% to Nixon’s 49%, but Nixon carried 14 of New Jersey’s 21 counties....
Decades of infighting among Parsippany Republicans led to Democratic mayors for 35 of the last 55 years in a town that once provided huge pluralities for GOP candidates running statewide and in Morris County. But intra-party quarrels and changing demographics...
Just 22,091 votes separated John F. Kennedy from Richard M. Nixon in the contest for New Jersey’s sixteen electoral votes in the 1960 presidential election. Kennedy won 50% to Nixon’s 49%, but Nixon carried 14 of New Jersey’s 21 counties....
Robert J. Dole, a former U.S. Senate Majority Leader and the 1996 Republican presidential nominee, died on Sunday. He was 98. Dole was on the ballot three times in New Jersey during a political career that spanned from his election...
Donald Rumsfeld, the former U.S. Secretary of Defense who died today at age 88, played a key role in torpedoing New Jersey Rep. Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen’s bid for House Minority Whip in 1966. The same campaign put Gerald R. Ford...
With the passing of Paul Porreca on Friday evening, the longest-living New Jersey congressional candidate is Richard J. Traynor, who ran as a Democrat against Rep. Florence P. Dwyer (R-Elizabeth) in 1964. Now 91 and living in Maine, Traynor is...
Robert A. Davis, the Republican candidate for Congress in New Jersey’s 11th district, died on August 10. He was 85. A longtime conservative activist, Davis among the early organizers of Ronald Reagan’s 1976 presidential campaign in New Jersey against the...