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- ↑ Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey, Volume 205, Part 2, p. 246. J.A. Fitzgerald., 1993. Accessed December 13, 2022. "John S. Penn, Rep., Far Hills... Assemblyman Penn was born in New York Nov. 19, 1926. He went to Plainfield public schools and the Wardlaw School. He attended Columbia College, and studied appraisal methods at Rutgers."
