Dr. George E. Cannon (1869-1925) was a physician and New Jersey Black Republican leader from Jersey City who seconded the ...

Republicans thought they could beat freshman U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg in 1988.  New Jersey had gone Republican in five consecutive presidential ...

Sheila Oliver was New Jersey’s trailblazing two-term lieutenant governor who became the first woman of color to serve as ...

A former maid and the granddaughter of slaves, Remay Pearce (1920-2007) served as an assemblywoman from Essex County for ...

Gov. Phil Murphy has picked Tahesha L. Way, his Secretary of State since 2018, as New Jersey’s next lieutenant governor in ...

George C. Richardson (1931-2021) was a maverick civil rights leader who served four terms in the New Jersey State Assembly in the 1960s and 1970s.

More than 60 years ago  a Freedom Rider named  Byron Baer, a longtime New Jersey legislator who was charged with attempting ...

Jeannine Frisby LaRue, a barrier-breaking fixture in New Jersey politics since the 1980s, a veteran government official and ...

Hutchins Inge (1900-2002) was the first Black to serve in the New Jersey State Senate.  A Newark physician, Inge was elected ...

Arnold Cream, known as famed heavyweight boxing champion Jersey Joe Wolcott, was the first Black to win election as a county ...

Walter Gilbert Alexander (1880-1953), the son of former slaves, was the first Black to serve in the New Jersey State Assembly ...

Wynona M. Lipman (1923-1999) was the first African American woman to serve in the New Jersey State Senate.  She served as a Senator from 1972 until her ...