Portal:New Jersey/Did you know/7

• ... that Carmine DeSopo was elected to office in 1995 in the New Jersey General Assembly's 7th Legislative District in the first legislative race in state history in which spending exceeded $1 million?
• ... that former New Jersey Representative Fred A. Hartley Jr., co-sponsor of the 1947 Taft–Hartley Act, served as the chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor?
• ... that in 1996 then New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman may have violated the civil rights of Sherron Rolax by frisking him?