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- ↑ Staff. "Major staff changes in governor's office", The Star-Ledger , December 16, 2008. Accessed December 16, 2008.
- 1 2 "Kris Kolluri Appointed as CEO of SDA: DOT Commissioner to join Authority on December 1, 2008" Archived July 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine , New Jersey Schools Development Authority press release dated November 6, 2008. Accessed February 22, 2011.
- ↑ "N.J. Gets New Governor... For a Day" Archived 2007-03-12 at the Wayback Machine , WPVI-TV, December 28, 2006. Accessed June 25, 2007. "Transportation Commissioner Kris Kolluri will take over the post because Governor Corzine will be out of town. So will the Senate president, Assembly speaker and attorney general, all of whom are ahead of Kolluri in the line of succession."
- ↑ "Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey".
- ↑ "Kim Guadagno to become New Jersey's first lieutenant governor". 19 January 2010.
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