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- ↑ 2012 Inductees, New Brunswick High School. Accessed January 23, 2024. "Frank M. Pelly - '51 Served as Executive Director of the New Jersey Lottery Commission, New Jersey Assemblyman, Middlesex County Freeholder, Councilman, Deputy Mayor and Board of Education member of North Brunswick."
- ↑ Manual of the New Jersey Legislature, 1989, p. 252. J.A. Fitzgerald, 1989. Accessed January 23, 2024. "He studied pharmacy at the University of Georgia, where he was graduated in 1956. He was born in New Brunswick on Aug. 3, 1933, and attended public schools there."
- 1 2 Mautner, Lyn. "New Jersey Q & A: Frank M. Pelly; The Man Behind Those Lottery Dreams", The New York Times , April 26, 1992. Accessed January 23, 2024. "But in another innovation, Mr. Pelly has also seen to it that the hot-line number for the New Jersey Council on Compulsive Gambling (1-800-GAMBLER) is stamped on all lottery tickets sold, as well as on the 5,000 lottery machines in the state and on brochures and advertising materials.... Except for time away at the University of Georgia, Mr. Pelly has lived in the New Brunswick area all his life. He owned a pharmacy there, which he sold two years ago. He has served as a member of the Town Council of North Brunswick, as Deputy Mayor, as a Middlesex County Freeholder and as a member of the State Assembly."
- ↑ "Florio picks assemblyman to be head of lottery agency", The Philadelphia Inquirer , May 15, 1991. Accessed January 23, 2024, via Newspapers.com. "Gov. Florio yesterday nominated Assemblyman Frank M. Pelly (D., Middlesex) to be executive director of the New Jersey Lottery.... The lottery has been led by an acting director since Barbara Marrow-Mooring, an appointee of former Gov. Thomas H. Kean, resigned last year to begin an unsuccessful campaign for the Trenton mayor's post. The acting director position is currently held by Russell R. Hart."
- ↑ Hooker, Jim. "Lawmaker tapped for lottery chief", Asbury Park Press , May 19, 1994. Accessed January 23, 2024, via Newspapers.com. "Virginia E. Haines, R-Ocean, has been tapped by Gov. Whitman to serve as the state's next lottery executive director, the governor's office announced yesterday.... Haines, a 47-year-old Shore-area native who won a second, two-year term to the Assembly in November, would replace Frank M. Pelly, a former Democratic assemblyman from Middlesex County."