Gov. James E. was the first governor to endorse a non-home state when he backed Howard Dean in December 2003: Photo by William Thomas Cain/Getty Images
Former First Lady Dina Matos McGreevey told Oprah Winfrey that she was certain her estranged husband would have been among the candidates seeking the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, if his career had not been derailed by scandal. "He thought he could get away with it, and if he had not been threatened, he would probably be running for office right now with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama," she said.

But even before the historic August 12, 2004 announcement that he was a Gay American, Governor James E. McGreevey struggled with upside-down approval numbers in New Jersey. He battled with fellow Democrats in the Legislature, faced scandals with members of his Administration, was named in a federal probe of a campaign fundraiser, and took heat for junkets to Ireland and Puerto Rico. Even if he won re-election to a second term here in Blue Jersey, would his political problems at home have impeded his ability to enter the national arena?

Governor Jon Corzine is the third consecutive elected Governor of New Jersey to break a leg while in office.

In 1999, Christine Todd Whitman broke her leg while skiing in Switzerland, after attending the World Economic Forum. She had surgery there to place a steel plate in her leg.

James E. McGreevey broke his leg in 2002 while walking on a beach in Cape May with his then-wife, Dina Matos McGreevey. He had surgery at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick. McGreevey was also involved in several automobile collisions while serving as Governor.