New Jersey Republican State Committee

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Republican Party of New Jersey
ChairpersonBob Hugin
Senate LeaderThomas Kean Jr.
Assembly LeaderJon Bramnick
Founded1880
Headquarters150 West State Street, Suite 230
Trenton, NJ 08608
Membership (2021)Increase1,457,910[1]
IdeologyConservatism
Fiscal conservatism
Social conservatism
Political positionRight-wing
Colours  Red
U.S. Senate seats
0 / 2
U.S. House seats
2 / 12
Seats in the New Jersey Senate
15 / 40
Seats in the New Jersey General Assembly
28 / 80
Website
www.njgop.org

The New Jersey Republican State Committee (NJGOP) is the affiliate of the United States Republican Party in New Jersey. It was founded in 1880 and is currently led by Bob Hugin.[2]

Current leadership[]

  • Bob Hugin, Chairman
  • Lynda A. Pagliughli, Vice Chairwoman
  • Irene Kim Asbury, Secretary
  • April Bengivenga, Treasurer
  • Bill Palatucci, National Committeeman
  • Virginia Haines, National Committeewoman
  • Phil Valenziano, Executive Director

Current elected officials[]

The New Jersey Republican Party holds a minority in both the New Jersey General Assembly and the New Jersey Senate.

Members of Congress[]

U.S. Senate[]

  • None

Both of New Jersey's U.S. Senate seats have held by Democrats since 2013. Jeffrey Chiesa was the last Republican to represent New Jersey in the U.S. Senate. Appointed in 2012 by then Governor Chris Christie after the death of Senator Frank Lautenberg, Chiesa opted not to run in the special election to determine who would serve the remainder of the term. Steve Lonegan instead ran and was subsequently defeated by Democratic challenger Cory Booker. Clifford P. Case was the last Republican elected to represent New Jersey in the U.S. Senate in 1972. First elected in 1954, Case served four consecutive terms before losing the Republican primary in 1978 to Jeff Bell who himself lost the General election to Democratic challenger Bill Bradley.

U.S. House of Representatives[]

Out of the 12 seats New Jersey is apportioned in the U.S. House of Representatives, two are held by Republicans:

District Member Photo
2nd Jeff Van Drew
Jeff Van Drew Official Portrait 116th Congress (cropped).jpg
4th Chris Smith
Chris Smith official photo (cropped).jpg

State officials[]

New Jersey Senate[]

  • Senate Minority Leader: Thomas Kean, Jr. of Westfield

New Jersey Assembly[]

Past elected officials[]

Vice President of the United States[]

  • Garret Hobart (1897–99)

U.S. Senators[]

  • John C. Ten Eyck (1859–65)
  • Richard Stockton Field (1862–63)
  • Alexander G. Cattell (1866–71)
  • Frederick T. Frelinghuysen (1866–69)
  • William Joyce Sewell (1881–87, 1895–1901)
  • John Kean (1899–1911)
  • John F. Dryden (1902–07)
  • Frank O. Briggs (1907–13)
  • Joseph S. Frelinghuysen (1917–23)
  • David Baird (1918–19)
  • Walter Evans Edge (1919–29)
  • Hamilton Fish Kean (1929–35)
  • David Baird, Jr. (1929–30)
  • Dwight Morrow (1930–31)
  • William Warren Barbour (1931–37, 1938–43)
  • Albert W. Hawkes (1943–49)
  • Howard Alexander Smith (1944–59)
  • Robert C. Hendrickson (1949–55)
  • Clifford P. Case (1955–79)
  • Nicholas F. Brady (1982)
  • Jeffrey Chiesa (2013)

U.S. Representatives[]

1856–1874[]

  • Isaiah D. Clawson (1857–59)
  • George R. Robbins (1857–59)
  • William Pennington (1859–61)
  • John T. Nixon (1859–63)
  • John L. N. Stratton (1859–63)
  • John F. Starr (1863–67)
  • William A. Newell (1865–67)
  • George A. Halsey (1867–73)
  • William Moore (1867–71)
  • John Hill (1867–73, 1881–83)
  • John W. Hazelton (1871–75)
  • Amos Clark, Jr. of Elizabeth (1873–75)
  • William W. Phelps (1873–75, 1883–89)
  • Isaac W. Scudder (1873–75)
  • Marcus L. Ward (1873–75)
  • Samuel A. Dobbins (1873–77)

1875–1899[]

  • Clement H. Sinnickson (1875–79)
  • Thomas B. Peddie (1877–79)
  • John H. Pugh (1877–79)
  • John L. Blake (1879–81)
  • Lewis A. Brigham (1879–81)
  • Charles H. Voorhis (1879–81)
  • George M. Robeson (1879–83)
  • Phineas Jones (1881–83)
  • John H. Brewer (1881–85)
  • Benjamin F. Howey (1883–85)
  • John Kean of Elizabeth (1883–85, 1887–89)
  • George Hires (1885–89)
  • Herman Lehlbach (1885–91)
  • James Buchanan of Trenton (1885–93)
  • Charles D. Beckwith (1889–91)
  • Christopher A. Bergen (1889–93)
  • Henry C. Loudenslager (1893–1911)
  • John J. Gardner (1893–1913)
  • Thomas McEwan, Jr. (1895–99)
  • Mahlon Pitney (1895–99)
  • Charles N. Fowler (1895–1911)
  • Richard W. Parker (1895–1911, 1914–19, 1921–23)
  • James F. Stewart (1895–1903)
  • Benjamin F. Howell (1895–1911)

1900–1924[]

  • William M. Lanning (1903–04)
  • William H. Wiley (1903–07, 1909–11)
  • Ira W. Wood (1904–13)
  • Henry C. Allen (1905–07)
  • Marshall Van Winkle (1905–07)
  • William J. Browning (1911–20)
  • Dow H. Drukker (1914–19)
  • John Henry Capstick (1915–18)
  • Edward W. Gray (1915–19)
  • Elijah C. Hutchinson (1915–23)
  • Frederick R. Lehlbach (1915–37)
  • Isaac Bacharach (1915–37)
  • John R. Ramsey (1917–21)
  • William F. Birch (1918–19)
  • Amos H. Radcliffe (1919–23)
  • Ernest R. Ackerman (1919–31)
  • Francis F. Patterson, Jr. (1920–27)
  • Theodore F. Appleby (1921–23)
  • Archibald E. Olpp (1921–23)
  • Herbert W. Taylor (1921–23, 1925–27)
  • Randolph Perkins (1921–36)
  • George N. Seger (1923–40)

1925–1949[]

  • Stewart H. Appleby of Asbury Park (1925–27)
  • Franklin W. Fort of East Orange (1925–31)
  • Charles A. Eaton of Plainfield (1925–53)
  • Harold G. Hoffman of South Amboy (1927–31)
  • Charles A. Wolverton of Camden (1927–59)
  • Fred A. Hartley, Jr. of Kearney (1929–49)
  • Peter A. Cavicchia of Newark (1931–37)
  • Donald H. McLean (1933–45)
  • D. Lane Powers of Trenton (1933–45)
  • J. Parnell Thomas of Allendale (1937–50)
  • Walter S. Jeffries (1939–41)
  • Frank C. Osmers, Jr. of Englewood (1939–43, 1951–65)
  • Albert L. Vreeland of East Orange (1939–43)
  • Robert W. Kean of Livingston (1939–59)
  • Gordon Canfield of Paterson (1941–61)
  • Frank L. Sundstrom of East Orange (1943–49)
  • Harry Lancaster Towe of Tenafly (1943–51)
  • James C. Auchincloss of Rumson (1943–65)
  • Frank A. Mathews, Jr. (1945–49)
  • Clifford P. Case of Rahway (1945–53)
  • Thomas M. Hand (1945–56)

1950–1974[]

  • William B. Widnall of Ridgewood (1950–74)
  • Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr. of Morristown (1953–75)
  • Milton W. Glenn of Margate City (1957–65)
  • Florence P. Dwyer of Elizabeth (1957–73)
  • George M. Wallhauser of Maplewood (1959–65)
  • William T. Cahill of Collingswood (1959–70)
  • John E. Hunt of Pitman (1967–75)
  • Charles W. Sandman, Jr. of Cape May Court House (1967–75)
  • Edwin B. Forsythe of Moorestown (1970–84)
  • Joseph J. Maraziti of Boonton (1973–75)
  • Matthew J. Rinaldo of Union (1973–83)

1975–present[]

  • Millicent H. Fenwick of Bernardsville (1975–83)
  • Harold C. Hollenbeck of East Rutherford (1977–83)
  • James A. Courter of Hackettstown (1979–91)
  • Marge Roukema of Ridgewood (1981–2003)
  • Jim Saxton of Mount Holly (1984–2009)
  • Dean A. Gallo of Morris Plains (1985–94)
  • Richard Zimmer of Flemington (1991–97)
  • Bob Franks of Union (1993–2001)
  • Rodney Frelinghuysen of Morristown (1995–2019)
  • Frank LoBiondo of Ventnor City (1995–2019)
  • William J. Martini of Clifton (1995–97)
  • Michael J. Pappas of Franklin Township (1997–99)
  • Michael A. Ferguson of Warren Township (2001–09)
  • Scott Garrett of Sussex (2003–17)
  • Leonard Lance of Lebanon (2009–19)
  • Jon Runyan of Mount Laurel (2011–15)
  • Tom MacArthur of Toms River (2015–19)

Governors[]

  • William A. Newell (1857–60)
  • Charles Smith Olden (1860–63)
  • Marcus Lawrence Ward (1866–69)
  • John W. Griggs (1896–98)
  • Foster McGowan Voorhees (1899–1902)
  • Franklin Murphy (1902–05)
  • Edward C. Stokes (1905–08)
  • John Franklin Fort (1908–11)
  • Walter Evans Edge (1917–19, 1944–47)
  • Morgan Foster Larson (1929–32)
  • Harold G. Hoffman (1935–38)
  • Alfred E. Driscoll (1947–54)
  • William T. Cahill (1970–74)
  • Thomas Kean (1982–90)
  • Christine Todd Whitman (1994–2001)
  • Donald DiFrancesco (2001–02)
  • Chris Christie (2010–18)

Notable past party members[]

  • Garret Hobart: First party chairman serving from 1880 till 1891. Was the 24th Vice President of the United States. Sixth Vice President to die in office.
  • Nelson G. Gross: Party chairman from 1969 till 1970. Gross was arrested and sentenced to two years for five counts of tax fraud and perjury. Gross was kidnapped and murdered on September 17, 1997.

See also[]

  • Republican Party (United States)
  • New Jersey
  • New Jersey Democratic State Committee

References[]

  1. ^ Winger, Richard. "March 2021 Ballot Access News Print Edition". Ballot Access News. Retrieved March 15, 2021.
  2. ^ "Lavery wins race for Republican State Chairman". New Jersey Globe. 2020-12-16. Retrieved 2020-12-16.

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