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 Servingwith Rosemarie Totaro | |
Preceded by | District created |
Succeeded by | James J. Barry Jr. John H. Dorsey |
Personal details | |
Born | Corsicana,Texas | December 4,1941
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]
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]
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