Cornelius Gallagher

October 13, 2008 - 11:59pm

And then there were seventeen

New Jersey has seventeen living former Congressmen -- that number should go to nineteen next year with the retirements of Jim Saxton and Michael Ferguson.  The oldest is Peter Frelinghuysen, the 92-year-old father of Congressman Rodney Frelinghuysen, who won an open seat in 1952 and served until his retirement in 1973. He lives in Morristown.  The youngest is Michael Pappas, a Somerset County Freeholder who won a seat in 1996 and lost it in 1998; he is 47.

*Cornelius Gallagher, 85, who served as a Hudson County Freeholder from 1953 to 1956 and as a Congressman from 1959 until his defeat in the 1972 Democratic primary. He lives in Hunterdon County.

*Robert Roe, 84, who served as Mayor of Wayne, Passaic County Freeholder and state Commissioner of Convervation and Economic Development before winning a House seat in a 1969 Special Election. He served until his retirement in 1992 and now runs a lobbying firm that specializes in transportation issues.

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September 18, 2008 - 8:53am

GOP risks going to just four congressional seats

New Jersey Republicans have nine non-incumbent candidates for Congress in 2008, the most since 1976 when the state's House delegation had a 12-3 Democratic majority.  For the last decade, New Jersey Democrats have held a 7-6 majority in the House.

Here's a brief history of the party turnover of New Jersey House seats:

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October 15, 2007 - 8:29am

It's always fun to work names like Maraziti, Meyner, Gallagher, Dwyer and DeFino into the Inside Edge

Back in 1972, when legislators still drew congressional districts with the consent of the Governor -- and when the GOP controlled state government -- court mandated redistricting led to the creation of a new Republican district in northwestern New Jersey at the expense of a Democratic district in Hudson County. 

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