New Jersey Republican Party

Republican Party of New Jersey
Chairman	Bob Hugin
Senate Leader	Steve Oroho
Assembly Leader	John DiMaio
Founded	1880
Headquarters	150 West State Street, Suite 230 Trenton, NJ 08608
Membership (2021)	1,457,910
Ideology	Conservatism Fiscal conservatism Social conservatism Trumpism
Colors	Red
U.S. Senate seats	0 / 2
U.S. House seats	3 / 12
Seats in the New Jersey Senate	15 / 40
Seats in the New Jersey General Assembly	34 / 80
Website
www.njgop.org
Politics of New Jersey Elections

The New Jersey Republican State Committee (NJGOP) is the affiliate of the United States Republican Party in New Jersey. It was founded in 1880 and is currently led by Bob Hugin.

Current leadership

• Bob Hugin, Chairman
• Lynda A. Pagliughli, Vice Chairwoman
• Irene Kim Asbury, Secretary
• April Bengivenga, Treasurer
• Bill Palatucci, National Committeeman
• Virginia Haines, National Committeewoman
• Phil Valenziano, Executive Director

Current elected officials

The New Jersey Republican Party holds a minority in both the New Jersey General Assembly and the New Jersey Senate.

Members of Congress

U.S. Senate

• None

Both of New Jersey's U.S. Senate seats have held by Democrats since 2013. Clifford P. Case was the last Republican elected to represent New Jersey in the U.S. Senate in 1972. Case served four consecutive terms before losing the Republican primary in 1978 to Jeff Bell, who himself lost the General election to Democratic challenger Bill Bradley. Two Republicans have served interim appointments to the Senate since: Nicholas F. Brady and Jeffrey Chiesa. Neither ran for election to a full term.

U.S. House of Representatives

Out of the 12 seats New Jersey is apportioned in the U.S. House of Representatives, three are held by Republicans:

District	Member	Photo
2nd	Jeff Van Drew
4th	Chris Smith
7th	Thomas Kean Jr.

State officials

New Jersey Senate

• Senate Minority Leader: Steve Oroho of Franklin (Sussex)

• Jon Bramnick of Westfield
• Tony Bucco of Boonton Township
• Christopher J. Connors of Lacey
• Kristin Corrado of Totowa
• Michael J. Doherty of Washington Township (Warren)
• Edward Durr of Gloucester City
• James W. Holzapfel of Toms River
• Declan O'Scanlon of Little Silver
• Joseph Pennacchio of Montville
• Vince Polistina of Egg Harbor
• Holly Schepisi of River Vale
• Robert Singer of Lakewood
• Jean Stanfield of Westampton
• Mike Testa of Vineland
• Samuel D. Thompson of Old Bridge

New Jersey Assembly

• Assembly Minority Leader: John DiMaio of Hackettstown

• Robert Auth of Old Tappan
• Christian Barranco of Jefferson Township
• Brian Bergen of Denville
• Robert D. Clifton of Matawan
• Ronald S. Dancer of Plumsted
• DeAnne DeFuccio of Upper Saddle River
• Christopher DePhillips of Wyckoff
• Aura Dunn of Mendham Township
• Kim Eulner of Shrewsbury
• Vicky Flynn of Holmdel
• DiAnne Gove of Long Beach
• Don Guardian of Atlantic City
• Sean T. Kean of Wall
• Michele Matsikoudis of New Providence
• Gregory P. McGuckin of Toms River
• Bethanne McCarthy Patrick of Mannington
• Nancy Munoz of Summit
• Marilyn Piperno of Colts Neck Township
• Erik Peterson of Franklin (Hunterdon)
• Kevin J. Rooney of Wyckoff
• Brian E. Rumpf of Little Egg Harbor
• Beth Sawyer of Woolwich Township
• Gerard Scharfenberger of Middletown
• Parker Space of Wantage
• Claire Swift of Margate City
• Ned Thomson of Wall
• Michael Torrissi of Hammonton
• Brandon Umba of Medford
• Jay Webber of Morris Plains
• Hal Wirths of Wantage
• John Catalano of Brick

Past elected officials

Vice President of the United States

• Garret Hobart (1897–99)

U.S. Senators

• John C. Ten Eyck (1859–65)
• Richard Stockton Field (1862–63)
• Alexander G. Cattell (1866–71)
• Frederick T. Frelinghuysen (1866–69, 1871-77)
• William Joyce Sewell (1881–87, 1895–1901)
• John Kean (1899–1911)
• John F. Dryden (1902–07)
• Frank O. Briggs (1907–13)
• Joseph S. Frelinghuysen (1917–23)
• David Baird (1918–19)
• Walter Evans Edge (1919–29)
• Hamilton Fish Kean (1929–35)
• David Baird, Jr. (1929–30)
• Dwight Morrow (1930–31)
• William Warren Barbour (1931–37, 1938–43)
• Albert W. Hawkes (1943–49)
• Howard Alexander Smith (1944–59)
• Robert C. Hendrickson (1949–55)
• Clifford P. Case (1955–79)
• Nicholas F. Brady (1982)
• Jeffrey Chiesa (2013)

U.S. Representatives

1856–1874

• Isaiah D. Clawson (1857–59)
• George R. Robbins (1857–59)
• William Pennington (1859–61)
• John T. Nixon (1859–63)
• John L. N. Stratton (1859–63)
• John F. Starr (1863–67)
• William A. Newell (1865–67)
• George A. Halsey (1867–73)
• William Moore (1867–71)
• John Hill (1867–73, 1881–83)
• John W. Hazelton (1871–75)
• Amos Clark, Jr. of Elizabeth (1873–75)
• William W. Phelps (1873–75, 1883–89)
• Isaac W. Scudder (1873–75)
• Marcus L. Ward (1873–75)
• Samuel A. Dobbins (1873–77)

1875–1899

• Clement H. Sinnickson (1875–79)
• Thomas B. Peddie (1877–79)
• John H. Pugh (1877–79)
• John L. Blake (1879–81)
• Lewis A. Brigham (1879–81)
• Charles H. Voorhis (1879–81)
• George M. Robeson (1879–83)
• Phineas Jones (1881–83)
• John H. Brewer (1881–85)
• Benjamin F. Howey (1883–85)
• John Kean of Elizabeth (1883–85, 1887–89)
• George Hires (1885–89)
• Herman Lehlbach (1885–91)
• James Buchanan of Trenton (1885–93)
• Charles D. Beckwith (1889–91)
• Christopher A. Bergen (1889–93)
• Henry C. Loudenslager (1893–1911)
• John J. Gardner (1893–1913)
• Thomas McEwan, Jr. (1895–99)
• Mahlon Pitney (1895–99)
• Charles N. Fowler (1895–1911)
• Richard W. Parker (1895–1911, 1914–19, 1921–23)
• James F. Stewart (1895–1903)
• Benjamin F. Howell (1895–1911)

1900–1924

• William M. Lanning (1903–04)
• William H. Wiley (1903–07, 1909–11)
• Ira W. Wood (1904–13)
• Henry C. Allen (1905–07)
• Marshall Van Winkle (1905–07)
• William J. Browning (1911–20)
• Dow H. Drukker (1914–19)
• John Henry Capstick (1915–18)
• Edward W. Gray (1915–19)
• Elijah C. Hutchinson (1915–23)
• Frederick R. Lehlbach (1915–37)
• Isaac Bacharach (1915–37)
• John R. Ramsey (1917–21)
• William F. Birch (1918–19)
• Amos H. Radcliffe (1919–23)
• Ernest R. Ackerman (1919–31)
• Francis F. Patterson, Jr. (1920–27)
• Theodore F. Appleby (1921–23)
• Archibald E. Olpp (1921–23)
• Herbert W. Taylor (1921–23, 1925–27)
• Randolph Perkins (1921–36)
• George N. Seger (1923–40)

1925–1949

• Stewart H. Appleby of Asbury Park (1925–27)
• Franklin W. Fort of East Orange (1925–31)
• Charles A. Eaton of Plainfield (1925–53)
• Harold G. Hoffman of South Amboy (1927–31)
• Charles A. Wolverton of Camden (1927–59)
• Fred A. Hartley, Jr. of Kearney (1929–49)
• Peter A. Cavicchia of Newark (1931–37)
• Donald H. McLean (1933–45)
• D. Lane Powers of Trenton (1933–45)
• J. Parnell Thomas of Allendale (1937–50)
• Walter S. Jeffries (1939–41)
• Frank C. Osmers, Jr. of Englewood (1939–43, 1951–65)
• Albert L. Vreeland of East Orange (1939–43)
• Robert W. Kean of Livingston (1939–59)
• Gordon Canfield of Paterson (1941–61)
• Frank L. Sundstrom of East Orange (1943–49)
• Harry Lancaster Towe of Tenafly (1943–51)
• James C. Auchincloss of Rumson (1943–65)
• Frank A. Mathews, Jr. (1945–49)
• Clifford P. Case of Rahway (1945–53)
• Thomas M. Hand (1945–56)

1950–1974

• William B. Widnall of Ridgewood (1950–74)
• Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr. of Morristown (1953–75)
• Milton W. Glenn of Margate City (1957–65)
• Florence P. Dwyer of Elizabeth (1957–73)
• George M. Wallhauser of Maplewood (1959–65)
• William T. Cahill of Collingswood (1959–70)
• John E. Hunt of Pitman (1967–75)
• Charles W. Sandman, Jr. of Cape May Court House (1967–75)
• Edwin B. Forsythe of Moorestown (1970–84)
• Joseph J. Maraziti of Boonton (1973–75)
• Matthew J. Rinaldo of Union (1973–83)

1975–present

• Millicent H. Fenwick of Bernardsville (1975–83)
• Harold C. Hollenbeck of East Rutherford (1977–83)
• James A. Courter of Hackettstown (1979–91)
• Marge Roukema of Ridgewood (1981–2003)
• Jim Saxton of Mount Holly (1984–2009)
• Dean A. Gallo of Morris Plains (1985–94)
• Richard Zimmer of Flemington (1991–97)
• Bob Franks of Union (1993–2001)
• Rodney Frelinghuysen of Morristown (1995–2019)
• Frank LoBiondo of Ventnor City (1995–2019)
• William J. Martini of Clifton (1995–97)
• Michael J. Pappas of Franklin Township (1997–99)
• Michael A. Ferguson of Warren Township (2001–09)
• Scott Garrett of Sussex (2003–17)
• Leonard Lance of Lebanon (2009–19)
• Jon Runyan of Mount Laurel (2011–15)
• Tom MacArthur of Toms River (2015–19)

Governors

• William A. Newell (1857–60)
• Charles Smith Olden (1860–63)
• Marcus Lawrence Ward (1866–69)
• John W. Griggs (1896–98)
• Foster McGowan Voorhees (1899–1902)
• Franklin Murphy (1902–05)
• Edward C. Stokes (1905–08)
• John Franklin Fort (1908–11)
• Walter Evans Edge (1917–19, 1944–47)
• Morgan Foster Larson (1929–32)
• Harold G. Hoffman (1935–38)
• Alfred E. Driscoll (1947–54)
• William T. Cahill (1970–74)
• Thomas Kean (1982–90)
• Christine Todd Whitman (1994–2001)
• Donald DiFrancesco (2001–02)
• Chris Christie (2010–18)

Party chairs

Governor Franklin Murphy remains the longest serving party chairman, having served for around fifteen nonconsecutive years during the period of 1892 to 1910.

The chair of the New Jersey Republican State Committee is elected by its members. Traditionally, the chair is named by the party's candidate for Governor and this selection is ratified pro forma by the Committee.

• Garret Hobart (1880–91)
• John Kean (1891–92)
• Franklin Murphy (1892–1904)
• Frank O. Briggs (1904–07)
• Franklin Murphy (1907–10)
• Frank O. Briggs (1910–13)
• Newton A.K. Bugbee (1913–19)
• Edward C. Stokes (1919–27)
• E. Bertram Mott (1927–34)
• E. Donald Sterner (1934–35)
• Henry W. Jeffers (1935–37)
• Clayton E. Freeman (1937–41)
• Howard Alexander Smith (1941–43)
• Lloyd B. Marsh (1943–49)
• John J. Dickerson (1949–53)
• Samuel L. Bodine (1953–58)
• Charles R. Erdman Jr. (1958–61)
• Webster B. Todd (1961–69)
• Nelson G. Gross (1969–70)
• John E. Dimon (1970–73)
• John J. Spoltore (1973)
• Webster B. Todd (1973–77)
• David A. Norcross (1977-80)
• Philip D. Kaltenbacher (1981–84)
• Frank B. Holman (1985–87)
• Bob Franks (1987–89)
• Kathleen Donovan (1989–90)
• Bob Franks (1990–92)
• Virginia Littell (1992–95)
• Chuck Haytaian (1995–2001)
• Joe Kyrillos (2001–04)
• Tom Wilson (2004–09)
• Jay Webber (2009–11)
• Sam Raia (2011–17)
• Michael B. Lavery (2017–2017)
• Doug Steinhardt (2017-2020)
• Michael B. Lavery (2020–2021)
• Bob Hugin (2021–)

See also

• Republican Party (United States)
• New Jersey
• New Jersey Democratic State Committee

External links

• New Jersey Republican State Committee