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The last New Jersey Democrat to lose a U.S. Senate race in New Jersey was Paul Krebs (1912-1996), labor leader and one-term congressman from Livingston.
The State of New Jersey, Essex County and the City of Newark lost a giant with the death of former Assemblyman George Richardson on September 24th of this year. A politician, an agitator, organizer, civil rights leader, and a military veteran who served with the occupational forces in Japan after WWII, Assemblyman Richardson was 91.[.]