Thomas Jefferson

Since 1824, when direct elections began, nine American Presidents never carried New Jersey: Martin Van Buren, James Polk, Abraham Lincoln, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Harry Truman, Jimmy Carter, and George W. Bush.  Of the ten best Presidents ranked by historians in a 2009 C-Span poll, New Jersey cast a majority of its electoral votes for all but Lincoln and Truman, and voted to support six of the worst: James Buchanan, William Henry Harrison, Warren Harding, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Pierce, and Hayes.

One of the ten best Presidents was a New Jerseyan, Woodrow Wilson, who served as Governor from 1911 to 1913.  Wilson carried New Jersey in his first campaign, but lost it when he ran for re-election in 1916.  Before the direct election of Presidents, New Jersey supported James Madison for President in 1808, but not when Madison ran for a second term in 1812.

U.S. Attorney Anthony Keasbey served from 1861 to 1886, New Jersey's longest serving federal prosecutor

When Christopher Christie leaves office on December 1, he will become the fifth longest serving United States Attorney from New Jersey.  Anthony Keasbey, who was appointed federal prosecutor by Abraham Lincoln in 1861, served for 25 years, winning reappointments from Andrew Johnson, Ulysses Grant, and Rutherford Hayes.  Joseph McIlvaine, named U.S. Attorney by Thomas Jefferson in 1804, served for nearly twenty years before resigning to become a U.S. Senator.

John F. Kennedy's U.S. Attorney, David Satz, Jr., was appointed in 1961 and left office six months into Richard Nixon's presidency in 1969.  (Satz is also New Jersey's oldest living former U.S. Attorney; he practices law with Saiber LLC in Newark; his late law partner, Samuel Saiber, was a Republican Assemblyman from Essex County.  Keasbey's predecessor, Garret Cannon spent nearly eight years as U.S. Attorney; he was named as a recess appointment by Franklin Pierce and then appointed by James Buchanan. 

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DeCROCE STATEMENT ON TTF BOONDOGGLE

The following are the remarks made by Assembly Republican Leader Alex DeCroce during today's remarks debate on A-2813, which refinances the Transportation Trust Fund: