New Jersey has no scarcity of revered political households over time.  Here’s a partial itemizing:

ADUBATO

Stephen N. Adubato, Sr. (1932-2020) was among the many strongest political leaders of his era.  He based the North Ward Academic and Cultural Heart, from which he ran a considerable political machine.  His son, Dr. Steve Adubato, Jr., served as an Assemblyman from Essex County and is an Emmy Award-winning TV persona and management skilled.  His late brother,  Michael F. Adubato, served within the State Meeting for eighteen years.

BUCCO

Anthony R. Bucco (1938-2019) served within the New Jersey State Senate from 1998 till his demise in 2019.  He beforehand served as a Boonton Alderman and Mayor, as a Morris County Freeholder, and within the State Meeting.  His son, Anthony M. Bucco, spent 5 phrases within the State Meeting earlier than successful his father’s State Senate seat in 2019.

BYRNE

Brendan T. Byrne (1924-2018) served as Governor of New Jersey from 1974 to 1982.  After serving as Govt Secretary (now Chief of Workers) to Gov. Robert Meyner, he was the Essex County Prosecutor, President of the Essex County Board of Public Utilities, and a Superior Court docket Choose.  His son, Tom Byrne, is a former New Jersey Democratic State Chairman.

CALABRESE

Gerald Calabrese (1925-2015) was the longest-serving mayor in New Jersey historical past.  The previous skilled basketball participant was the mayor for 50 years, from 1965 till his demise in 2015.  He served as a Bergen County Freeholder and as Bergen County Democratic Chairman.  His son, Thomas, succeeded him as mayor.  His grandson, Clinton, has represented the thirty sixth district within the State Meeting since 2018.

CASE

Clifford P. Case (1904-1982) served as a Rahway Councilman, Assemblyman, and Congressman earlier than his election to the US Senate in 1954.  He served within the Senate for twenty-four years.  His grandson, Matthew Holt, served as a Hunterdon County Commissioner from 2006 till his resignation earlier this 12 months.

CLARK

Ledyard Blair Clark (1917-2000) was a former CBS Information Vice chairman who managed Eugene McCarthy’s marketing campaign for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination.  His stepson, Tom Malinowski, represents New Jersey’s seventh district within the U.S. Home of Representatives.

Clark’s sister, Anne Martindell, was a New Jersey State Senator and U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand.  His father, William Clark, was a decide of the U.S. Court docket of Appeals for the Third Circuit and a U.S. District Court docket Choose for the District of New Jersey.  Blair Clark’s grandfather was a U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and U.S. Secretary of Warfare beneath President Ulysses Grant.  His great-grandfather additionally represented Pennsylvania within the U.S. Senate and was President Abraham Lincoln’s U.S. Secretary of Warfare.

CONNORS

Leonard T. Connors, Jr. (1929-2016) served as a State Senator from 1982 to 2008, and as Mayor of Surf Metropolis from 1966 to 2015.  He additionally served as an Ocean County Freeholder from 1977 to 1982.  His son, Christopher Connors, received his father’s State Senate seat in 2007 and is now serving his fifth time period.  Previous to his election to the Senate, Chris Connors served as a Lacey Township Committeeman and Mayor, and spent eighteen years within the New Jersey State Meeting.

CRYAN

John F. Cryan (1929-2005) served within the State Meeting from 1966 to 1968 and received his first of three phrases as Essex County Sheriff in 1970.  His son, Joseph Cryan, is serving his second time period as a State Senator from the Union County-based twentieth district.  He received a State Meeting seat seven instances, served as Majority Chief from 2010 to 2012, as Democratic State Chairman from 2006 to 2010, and was the Union County Sheriff from 2015 to 2018.

DURKIN

Raymond M. Durkin (1936-2014) served as Essex County Democratic Chairman for twelve years and as New Jersey Democratic State Chairman from 1985 to 1989.  His son, Christopher, has been the Essex County Clerk since 2006.

FRELINGHUYSEN

Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen, Jr. (1916-2011) was a congressman from New Jersey from 1953 to 1975  His son, Rodney, represented New Jersey’s eleventh district in Congress from 1995 to 2019.

A number of Frelinghuysen members of the family have held excessive workplace, together with 4 U.S. Senators (starting in 1793), two U.S. Secretaries of State, and a Whig Occasion candidate for Vice President.  Rodney Frelinghuysen’s great-great-great-grandfather based the Ballantine Brewery, his  great-great-grandfather was the founding father of Proctor & Gamble and his great-grandfather based the American Sugar Refining Firm.

GIBLIN

John J. Giblin (1909-1975) served as an Essex County Freeholder within the Fifties and as a State Senator within the Sixties.  He was the enterprise supervisor of the Worldwide Union of Working Engineers Native 68 from 1948 till his demise and served as chairman of the IUOE in Washington.

His son, Thomas P. Giblin, is among the most consequential New Jersey political leaders of his era.  After practically flipping a State Meeting seat in 1973 at age 26, he was elected to the Essex County Board of Freeholders in 1977 and served there once more from 1982 to 1990.  He served as Essex County Surrogate, Essex County Democratic Chairman, and New Jersey Democratic State Chairman.  He has represented the thirty fourth district within the State Meeting since 2006.  One other son, the late Vincent Giblin, held high positions at IUOE.

A few of Tom Giblin’s kids have adopted within the household custom of public service: Ted is a Verona councilman, Patrick is a former Cranford mayor, and Noreen is the director of the authorities unit in Gov. Phil Murphy’s workplace.

HUGHES

Richard J. Hughes (1909-1992) served as Governor of New Jersey from 1962 to 1970 and as Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court docket from 1973 to 1979.  He’s a former Mercer County Democratic Chairman and Superior Court docket Choose and was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Congress in 1938.

A number of of his sons have performed a number one position in New Jersey politics.  Brian Hughes has served because the Mercer County Govt since 2004.  Michael Murphy is a former Morris County Prosecutor who sought the Democratic nomination for Governor in 1997.  John Hughes served as a U.S. Justice of the Peace Choose for the District of New Jersey for eighteen years.

HUGHES

William J. Hughes (1932-2019) represented New Jersey’s 2nd district within the U.S. Home of Representatives from 1975 till his retirement in 1995.  President Invoice Clinton later nominated him as th U.S. Ambassador to Panama.  His son, William J. Hughes, Jr., is a former federal prosecutor who got here inside 441 votes of ousting State Sen. James Cafiero in 2001.  He later misplaced a bid for his father’s outdated seat to Rep. Frank LoBiondo in 2014.

KEAN

Thomas H. Kean (Born 1935) served as Governor of New Jersey from 1982 to 1990.  He received an Essex County-based State Meeting seat in 1967 and served as Speaker, Majority Chief and Minority Chief throughout his ten years within the legislature.  He later served as President of Drew College and as chairman of the 9/11 Fee.

His son, Thomas H. Kean, Jr., served within the State Meeting from 2001 to 2003 and as a State Senator from 2003 to 2022.  He was the longest-serving Senate Minority Chief in state historical past.  Kean got here inside one share level of successful a seat in Congress in 2000 and is the Republican nominee for Congress in New Jersey’s seventh district this 12 months.

Robert W. Kean (1893-1980),  the previous governor’s father, represented New Jersey within the U.S. Home of Representatives from 1939 to 1959.  His father, Hamilton Fish Kean (1862-1941), was a United States Senator from New Jersey from 1929 to 1935.   Hamilton Kean’s older brother, John, additionally represented New Jersey within the Home and Senate, and his great-grandfather was a delegate to the Continental Congress from South Carolina.

EGAN

Joseph V. Egan (Born 1938) has represented the seventeenth district within the New Jersey State Meeting since 2002.  His son, Kevin, is a New Brunswick Metropolis Councilman.

HOLT

Rush D. Holt, Sr. (1905-1955) served as a United States Senator from West Virginia from 1935 to 1941; he was elected at age 29 and delayed taking workplace till his thirtieth, three months after different freshman senators too workplace.  His son, Rush D. Holt, Jr., was a congressman from New Jersey from 1999 to 2015.

KELLY

William F. Kelly (1911-1989) represented Hudson County within the New Jersey State Senate from 1958 to 1974 and was a candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1969.  He additionally served in Gov. Robert Meyner’s cupboard as president of the New Jersey Civil Service Fee within the Fifties advert was the Hudson County Democratic Chairman from 1971 to 1973.  Kelly’s granddaughter, DeAnne DeFuccio, was elected to the New Jersey State Meeting in a 2021 election after serving as an Higher Saddle River Councilwoman.

LANCE

Wesley L. Lance (1908-2007) served as Senate President in 1959.  A Hunterdon County Republican, he served within the State Meeting from 1938 to 1942, and within the State Senate from 1942 to 1943, when he resigned to hitch within the U.S. Navy throughout World Warfare II.  He returned to the Senate in 1954 and served an extra eight years.  Lance was a delegate to the New Jersey State Constitutional Conventions of 1947 and 1966.

His son, Leonard Lance, served as an assistant counsel to Gov. Thomas Kean, as an assemblyman from 1991 to 2002, as a state senator from 2002 to 2009, and as a member of the U.S. Home of Representatives from 2009 to 2019.

MENENDEZ

Robert Menendez (Born 1954) is the senior United States Senator from New Jersey and the chairman of the U.S. Senate International Relations Committee.  He served as Union Metropolis Mayor, Assemblyman, State Senator and Congressman earlier than shifting to the U.S. Senate in 2006.  His son, Robert J. Menendez, is a Commissioner of the Port Authority of New Yorl and New Jersey, and the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Representatives in New Jersey’s eighth district.

MURPHY

John W. Murphy (1877-1948) served as an Alderman in Newton, Massachusetts from 1910 to 1918.  His grandson, Phil, is serving his second time period as Governor of New Jersey.

NORCROSS

George E. Norcross (1928-1998) served as president of the Southern New Jersey AFL-CIO Central Labor Union for sixteen years.  He obtained one vote for the Democratic nomination for Vice President on the 1972 Democratic Nationwide Conference.

Three of his sons are highly effective gamers in New Jersey politics: George E. Norcross III has been a Democratic powerbroker for the reason that Eighties; Donald Norcross is a congressman; and Phil Norcross is a companion at a significant South Jersey regulation agency.

O’TOOLE

Robert O’Toole (Born 1934) served three phrases because the Mayor of Cedar Grove and was elected to the Township Council in 2003, 2007 and 2011.  His son, Kevin, preceded his father in public workplace.  He was elected to the Cedar Grove Township Council in 1989 and have become mayor for the primary of three  instances in 1990.  Kevin O’Toole was elected to the State Meeting six instances and served within the State Senate in 2001 and from 2008 till 2017 when he resigned to develop into chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

JONES

LeRoy J. Jones, Sr. (1935-2015) was a Democratic chief who was nominated to the New Jersey State Parole Board by Gov. Brendan Byrne in 1980.  His son, LeRoy Jones, Jr., a former Essex County Freeholder and Assemblyman, is the Essex County Democratic Chairman and the New Jersey Democratic State Chairman.

PASCRELL

William J. Pascrell, Jr. (Born 1937) was first elected to Congress in 1996 after serving as an Assemblyman, Paterson Mayor and Passaic County Democratic Chairman.  His son, William J. Pascrell III, is a former Passaic County Counsel and is a companion at Princeton Public Affairs, a number one Trenton lobbying agency.

PAYNE

Donald M. Payne (1934-2012) represented New Jersey’s tenth district within the U.S. Home of Representatives from 1989 till his demise in 2012, the primary Black congressman in state historical past.  He was elected to his first of three phrases as an Essex County Freeholder in 1972 and was a two-term Newark Metropolis Councilman.  His son, Donald M. Payne, Jr., served as a freeholder and Newark Metropolis Councilman earlier than successful his father’s congressional seat in a 2012 particular election.

RICE

Ronald L. Rice (Born 1945) has represented the Essex County-based twenty eighth district within the State Senate since he received a 1986 particular election and is the longest-serving Black legislator in New Jersey historical past.  He served on the Newark Metropolis Council from 1982 to 1998.  His son, Ronald C. Rice, is a former Newark Metropolis Councilman.

SCHARFENBERGER

Gerald Scharfenberger (Born 1958) served as Mayor of Middletown and as a Monmouth County Freeholder earlier than his election to the State Meeting in 2019.  His son, Dan, is a high Republican political operative who ran the Senate GOP marketing campaign committee in 2021.  He’s presently the marketing campaign supervisor for Tom Kean, Jr. for Congress.  Gerald Scharfenberger’s son-in-law, Tony Perry, is the Mayor of Middletown.

SCHEPISI

John A. Schepisi (Born 1944) is a former Bergen County Republican Chairman.  His daughter, Holly, was elected 5 instances as an assemblywoman from the thirty ninth district and received a particular election to the State Senate in 2021.

TESTA

Frank J. Testa (1921-2002) served as Mayor of Vineland and as a Superior Court docket Choose.  His grandson, Michael Testa, Jr., is a Republican state senator from the first legislative district and the Cumberland County GOP chairman.

TODD

Webster B. Todd (1899-1989) served two stints because the New Jersey Republican State Chairman and held a high publish on the North Atlantic Treaty Group in the course of the Eisenhower Administration.  His daughter, Christine Todd Whitman, served as Governor of New Jersey from 1994 to 2001, and as administrator of  the U.S. Environmental Safety Company from 2001 to 2003.  His late son, Webster B. Todd, Jr., was an assemblyman from Somerset County within the Sixties.

WATSON

John S. Watson (1924-1996) grew to become the primary Black to function a Mercer County Freeholder in 1970 and served within the New Jersey State Meeting from 1982 to 1994. He served as chairman of the Meeting Finances Committee.  His daughter, Bonnie Watson Coleman, has served because the congresswoman from New Jersey’s twelfth district since 2015.  She is a former Meeting Majority Chief and Democratic State Chair and served within the legislature from 1998 till her election to Congress.

WILENTZ

David Wilentz (1894-1988) was the Lawyer Basic of New Jersey from 1934 to 1944 and the longtime Middlesex County Democratic boss.  His son, Robert, served as an Assemblyman from 1966 to 1970 and as Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court docket from 1979 till three weeks earlier than his demise in 1996.  One other son, Warren, was the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in 1966, dropping to Republican Clifford Case.