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He previously served as a Boonton Alderman and Mayor, as a Morris County Freeholder, and in the State Assembly. His son, Anthony M. Bucco, spent five terms in ...

His son, Robert, served as an Assemblyman from 1966 to 1970 and as Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1979 until three weeks before his death in 1996. Robert Menendez (Born 1954) is the senior United States Senator from New Jersey and the chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He served as Union City Mayor, Assemblyman, State Senator and Congressman before moving to the U.S. Senate in 2006. She is a former Assembly Majority Leader and Democratic State Chair and served in the legislature from 1998 until her election to Congress. He served as Essex County Surrogate, Essex County Democratic Chairman, and New Jersey Democratic State Chairman. He has represented the 34th district in the State Assembly since 2006. Donald M. Payne (1934-2012) represented New Jersey’s 10th district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 until his death in 2012, the first Black congressman in state history. Kevin O’Toole was elected to the State Assembly six times and served in the State Senate in 2001 and from 2008 until 2017 when he resigned to become chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. John J. Giblin (1909-1975) served as an Essex County Freeholder in the 1950s and as a State Senator in the 1960s. Robert O’Toole (Born 1934) served three terms as the Mayor of Cedar Grove and was elected to the Township Council in 2003, 2007 and 2011. He won an Essex County-based State Assembly seat in 1967 and served as Speaker, Majority Leader and Minority Leader during his ten years in the legislature. John F. Cryan (1929-2005) served in the State Assembly from 1966 to 1968 and won his first of three terms as Essex County Sheriff in 1970. He won a State Assembly seat seven times, served as Majority Leader from 2010 to 2012, as Democratic State Chairman from 2006 to 2010, and was the Union County Sheriff from 2015 to 2018. Anthony R. Bucco (1938-2019) served in the New Jersey State Senate from 1998 until his death in 2019.