Gordon MacInnes
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Gordon MacInnes | |
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| Member of the New Jersey Senate from the 25th district | |
| In office January 11, 1994 – January 13, 1998 | |
| Preceded by | John H. Dorsey |
| Succeeded by | Anthony Bucco |
| Member of the New Jersey General Assembly from the 23rd district | |
| In office January 8, 1974 – January 13, 1976 Serving with Rosemarie Totaro | |
| Preceded by | District created |
| Succeeded by | James J. Barry Jr. John H. Dorsey |
| Personal details | |
| Born | December 4, 1941 Corsicana, Texas |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Alma mater | Occidental College (AB) Princeton University (MPA) |
Gordon A. MacInnes (born December 4, 1941) is an American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey who has served in both houses of the New Jersey Legislature.[1] MacInnes was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly in 1973 in a heavily Republican Morris County district, as part of the Watergate-driven Democratic landslide of that year. He was defeated in his re-election bid in 1975.[2] In 1993, he won election to the New Jersey Senate in a major upset over incumbent Senate Majority Leader John H. Dorsey, again in a heavily Republican district.[3] He again failed to win re-election in 1997, losing to Republican Anthony Bucco,[2] who continued to hold that Senate seat until his death in 2019.
MacInnes also served as Assistant Commissioner in the New Jersey Department of Education from 2002 to 2007. A resident of Morristown, New Jersey, he was confirmed in 2010 as a member of the Board of Governors of Rutgers University.[4] He also is a former executive director of the New Jersey Network.[5]
MacInnes is the president of New Jersey Policy Perspective, a left-leaning, nonprofit organization that researches and analyzes economic issues. MacInnes is a fellow at the Century Foundation in New York and was a lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.[6][7]
During the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson, MacInnes was deputy director of the White House Task Force on the Cities.[8]
Personal life
[edit]He is married to Blair MacInnes, a philanthropist and former teacher who lives in Morris Township and has served on boards for many civic and charitable organizations.[9] They have three sons and nine grandchildren.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ Senator Gordon A. MacInnes (D) Archived February 5, 1997, at the Wayback Machine, New Jersey Legislature. Accessed February 8, 2024. "General Assembly 1974-76; Senate 1994-present"
- ^ a b "Gordon MacInnes | Speaker | Forum Network | Free Online Lectures from PBS and NPR". Archived from the original on 2009-11-06. Retrieved 2010-07-20.
- ^ < NJ State Senate 25, 1993, OurCampaigns. Accessed February 8, 2024.
- ^ "Education Expert Gordon A. MacInnes Inducted to Rutgers' Board of Governors". Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2010-07-20.
- ^ [1] Archived 2010-02-28 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Rutgers University news release "Education Expert Gordon A. MacInnes Inducted to Rutgers' Board of Governors" February 18, 2010".
- ^ "Biography at Center for American Progress". Archived from the original on 2009-05-23. Retrieved 2012-08-11.
- ^ Macinnes, Gordon (1 February 1996). Wrong for All the Right Reasons: How White Liberals Have Been Undone by Race. NYU Press. ISBN 9780814755433 – via Google Books.
- ^ Coughlin, Kevin (20 January 2008). "A visit from the Gov". nj.com.
- ^ "Board of Trustees".
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