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- 1 2 "County Clerk Elaine Flynn". Middlesex County, NJ. Retrieved April 21, 2020.
- ↑ Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey, Volume 200, Part 2, p. 251. J.A. Fitzgerald, 1983. Accessed August 23, 2023. "William E. Flynn, Dem., Old Bridge - Assemblyman Flynn was born in Perth Amboy Feb. 3, 1938. After his graduation from Trenton State College he attended Rutgers University Law School, where he received his juris doctor degree."
- ↑ "Obituary of Mary Capaccione Flynn", Central New Jersey Home News , September 1, 2011. Accessed August 23, 2023, via Newspapers.com. "All three graduated from Perth Amboy High School and The College of New Jersey. Her oldest son, William Flynn, went on to graduate from Rutgers Law School and has his own law firm in Old Bridge."
- ↑ Morgan, Sue M. (October 14, 2004). "Family, friends gather for Cooper dedication". Greater Media. Retrieved April 21, 2020.
Gillespie recalled how Cooper, who was one of his teachers in the mid-1970s at James McDivitt Elementary School, unsuccessfully challenged then-Assemblyman William Flynn for the Democratic incumbent's 13th District seat. Flynn's wife, present-day Middlesex County Clerk Elaine Flynn, was a teacher at the same school.