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Distinguished Flying Cross. Air Medal (4) Brendan Thomas Byrne (April 1, 1924 – January 4, 2018) was an American attorney and Democratic Party politician who served as the 47th Governor of New Jersey from 1974 to 1982. Byrne began his career as a private attorney in Newark and East Orange.
Jan 4, 2018 · Brendan T. Byrne, the former New Jersey governor who helped lure professional teams to a new sports colossus in the Meadowlands and won passage of the state’s first income tax, a feat that ...
Jan 4, 2018 · Born in West Orange, Brendan Byrne was a B-17 navigator, a lawyer, a judge, a prosecutor and an unlikely politician who became governor of New Jersey. Skip to Article Set weather
Jan 5, 2018 · A New Jersey governor who mobsters said was too ethical to be bribed and who authorized the law permitting gambling in Atlantic City has died. Brendan Byrne was 93. His son Tom Byrne says he died Thursday at a home in Livingston where he had been living.
Jan 4, 2018 · New Jersey Democratic state Senate President Steve Sweeney says the state has lost one of its "most politically courageous public leaders" following the death of former two-term Gov. Brendan Byrne. Byrne authorized the law permitting gambling in Atlantic City and was considered by mobsters to be too ethical to bribe.
Jan 5, 2018 · Former New Jersey Gov. Brendan Byrne, who presided over the legalization of casino gambling in Atlantic City and nearly lost re-election after establishing the state's first income tax, has...
Jan 5, 2018 · LIVINGSTON, N.J. -- Former two-term Gov. Brendan Byrne, who mobsters said was too ethical to be bribed and who authorized the law permitting gambling in Atlantic City, has died at age 93.
Jan 8, 2018 · Current and former New Jersey political heavyweights have remembered late Gov. Brendan Byrne as a towering figure who infused the state's bruising political arena with dignity and a dose of Irish humor.
Jan 5, 2018 · LIVINGSTON, N.J. (AP) — Former two-term Gov. Brendan Byrne, who mobsters said was too ethical to be bribed and who authorized the law permitting gambling in Atlantic City, has died at age 93.
Jan 4, 2018 · Former Gov. Brendan T. Byrne, an unlikely politician who presided over the state's first income tax, fought to preserve the Pinelands and brought legalized casino gaming to Atlantic City, has...
