29 Notable alumni of
College of New Jersey
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The College of New Jersey is 1741st in the world, 618th in North America, and 583rd in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 29 notable alumni from the College of New Jersey sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Holly Black
- Occupations
- journalistchildren's writernovelistwriter
- Biography
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Holly Black is an American writer and editor best known for her children's and young adult fiction. Her most recent work is the New York Times bestselling young adult Folk of the Air series. She is also well known for The Spiderwick Chronicles, a series of children's fantasy books she created with writer and illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi, and her debut trilogy of young adult novels officially called the Modern Faerie Tales. Black has won an Eisner Award, a Lodestar Award, a Nebula Award, and a Newbery Honor.
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Richard Sterban
- Occupations
- songwritersinger
- Biography
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Richard Anthony Sterban is an American singer. He was born in Camden, New Jersey. In 1972, he joined the country and gospel quartet The Oak Ridge Boys, in which he sings bass.
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Chris Smith
- Enrolled in the College of New Jersey
- In 1975 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- politicianbusinesspersonbusiness executive
- Biography
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Christopher Henry Smith is an American politician serving his 22nd term as the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 4th congressional district. Though it has taken various forms, his district has always been situated in central New Jersey. Currently, the district contains parts of Ocean and Monmouth counties. Smith is a member of the Republican Party, having switched from the Democratic Party in 1978.
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Tom Scharpling
- Occupations
- screenwriterradio personalityactorvoice actorextra
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Thomas John Giuliano II, known professionally as Tom Scharpling, is an American comedian, television writer, producer, music video director, voice actor, and radio host. He is best known for hosting the weekly Internet radio call-in comedy program The Best Show with Tom Scharpling (formerly The Best Show on WFMU), the voice of Greg Universe in the animated series Steven Universe and its sequel series Steven Universe Future, and for acting as a writer/executive producer for the TV show Monk.
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James Florio
- Occupations
- politicianlawyermilitary officer
- Biography
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James Joseph Florio was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 49th governor of New Jersey from 1990 to 1994. He was previously the U.S. Representative for New Jersey's 1st congressional district from 1975 to 1990 and served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1970 to 1975. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
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Tom McCarthy
- Occupations
- sports commentatorjournalist
- Biography
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Tom McCarthy is an American sports broadcaster. He is the play-by-play announcer for Philadelphia Phillies television broadcasts and also calls National Football League games for Westwood One. He calls select NFL, NBA and college basketball games on CBS beginning in 2014. McCarthy previously served as the play-by-play voice of Saint Joseph's University men's and women's basketball teams.
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John Stryker Meyer
- Occupations
- soldier
- Biography
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John Stryker "Tilt" Meyer is an American author and U.S. Army Special Forces combat veteran of service in covert reconnaissance with the Studies and Observations Group, also known as MACV-SOG. Meyer has published three works of nonfiction related to his experiences in the Vietnam War; the first was Across the Fence: The Secret War in Vietnam published in 2003.
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William Pennington
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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William Pennington was an American politician and lawyer. He was the 13th governor of New Jersey from 1837 to 1843. He served one term in the United States House of Representatives, during which he served as Speaker of the House from 1860 to 1861.
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Alexander Martin
- Occupations
- military personnelpoliticianjudge
- Biography
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Alexander Martin was a Founding Father of the United States, framer of the U.S. Constitution, fourth and seventh Governor of North Carolina, and an infantry officer in the American Revolutionary War. In private life, Martin was a lawyer, merchant, planter, and slave owner.
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Ty Treadway
- Occupations
- modelengineertelevision actor
- Biography
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Tyrus Richard Treadway is an American game show host, actor, and talk show host. Treadway co-hosted Soap Talk with Lisa Rinna.
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Sheila Callaghan
- Occupations
- novelist
- Biography
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Sheila Callaghan is a playwright and screenwriter who emerged from the RAT (Regional Alternative Theatre) movement of the 1990s. She has been profiled by American Theater Magazine, "The Brooklyn Rail", Theatermania, and The Village Voice. Her work has been published in American Theatre magazine.
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Adella Wotherspoon
- Biography
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Adella Liebenow Wotherspoon was the youngest and last living survivor of the General Slocum ship disaster of June 15, 1904.
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Aaron Ogden
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Aaron Ogden was an American soldier, lawyer, United States Senator and the fifth governor of New Jersey. Ogden is perhaps best known today as the complainant in Gibbons v. Ogden which destroyed the monopoly power of steamboats on the Hudson River in 1824.
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Tapping Reeve
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Tapping Reeve was an American lawyer, judge, and law educator. In 1784 he opened the Litchfield Law School, the first law school in the United States, in Litchfield, Connecticut.
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Melanie Balcomb
- Occupations
- basketball coach
- Biography
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Melanie Balcomb is an American basketball coach. She was previously the head coach for the Vanderbilt women's basketball team in 2016.
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Joel Parker
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Joel Parker was an American attorney and Democratic Party politician who served two non-consecutive terms as the 20th governor of New Jersey from 1863 to 1866 and 1872 to 1875. As a Democratic governor during the American Civil War, Parker was one of the leading critics of the Abraham Lincoln administration's domestic and military policy, though he was generally a supporter of the Union war effort. In 1868 and 1876, he was nominated for President of the United States as a favorite son by New Jersey's party delegation.
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Mary-Kate Fisher
- Biography
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Mary-Kate Fisher is a former political appointee who served as Acting Chief of Protocol of the United States from June 24, 2019, to August 12, 2019. She previously served as Assistant Chief of Protocol for Visits.
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Joseph A. Mussomeli
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Joseph Adamo Mussomeli was an employee of the United States Department of State and is the former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Slovenia and the Kingdom of Cambodia.
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Balvir Singh
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Balvir Singh is a teacher and Democratic politician from Burlington Township, New Jersey who has served on the Burlington County Board of County Commissioners since 2018. Singh is the first Asian American to win a countywide election in Burlington County and the first Sikh American to win a countywide election in New Jersey.
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Jean Stanfield
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 55)
- Enrolled in the College of New Jersey
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jean Stanfield is an American politician who served in the New Jersey Senate, representing the 8th Legislative District from 2022 to 2024. She previously served in the New Jersey General Assembly, representing the 8th Legislative District from 2020 to 2022. Stanfield served as Sheriff of Burlington County from 2002 to 2019.
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Geralyn Wolf
- Occupations
- Anglican priestpriest
- Biography
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Geralyn Wolf is an American bishop who was the twelfth diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Rhode Island in the Episcopal Church. Wolf was consecrated as bishop on February 17, 1996.
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Verlina Reynolds-Jackson
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 53)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Verlina Reynolds-Jackson is an American Democratic Party politician who represents the 15th Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly. Previously a member of the Trenton City Council, Reynolds-Jackson was sworn into office on February 15, 2018, to succeed Elizabeth Maher Muoio, who left office after being nominated to serve as Treasurer of New Jersey.
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Stephen Dadaian
- Years
- 1987-.. (age 37)
- Occupations
- record producercomposer
- Biography
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Stephen Charles Dadaian is an Armenian electric and classical guitarist from Cresskill, New Jersey. He is also a general dentist. He attended Cresskill High School, where he graduated in 2005 and later graduated from The College of New Jersey in 2009. He graduated and earned his DDS degree from Columbia University College of Dental Medicine in 2013, where he was part of The William Jarvie Research Society.
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Joe Howarth
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Joseph Howarth Jr. is an American Republican Party politician who represented the 8th Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly since he was sworn into office on January 12, 2016. Howarth lost re-election in the 2019 GOP primary. He left office on January 14, 2020.
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Oscar Fay Adams
- Occupations
- biographerwriter
- Biography
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Oscar Fay Adams was an American editor and author.
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Robyn E. Hannigan
- Enrolled in the College of New Jersey
- 1985-1988 graduated with Bachelor of Science in biology
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Robyn Ellen Hannigan is an American academic in the field of science, and an inventor and entrepreneur. She is the 19th president of Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pa., having previously served as the provost of Clarkson University.
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Deborah Wolfe
- Enrolled in the College of New Jersey
- In 1937 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Biography
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Deborah Cannon Partridge Wolfe was an African American educator, minister, and Education Chief of the United States House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor. Humbly self-described as a “teacher and preacher,” Wolfe was a woman of many accomplishments in her field, an education reformer, and a pioneer who challenged racial and gender barriers.
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Emma B. Alrich
- Occupations
- journalistwriterteacher
- Biography
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Emma B. Alrich was an American journalist, author, and educator. She was born in New Jersey and moved to Kansas after marrying. Alrich served as Filing Clerk of the Kansas Legislature, and was the only woman in her day to serve as superintendent of the city schools of Mitchell County, Kansas. She was a charter member of the National Woman's Relief Corps, as well as its national senior vice-president. She was the department president of Kansas, and charter member of the organization in 1883 at Denver, Colorado. Eldridge died in 1925.
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Robert Stockton Green
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Robert Stockton Green was an American Democratic Party politician, who was the 27th governor of New Jersey from 1887 to 1890. He also sat for one term in the United States House of Representatives from 1885 to 1887.
