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...JERSEY. Delegates heard appeals by Candidates Averell Harriman and Estes Kefauver and by Adlai Stevenson's campaign manager, Jim Finnegan, but elected to go to the convention uncommitted. Though the group is heavily pro-Stevenson, leaders will plump for the delegation's chairman, Governor Robert B. Meyner, as a first-ballot favorite...
...Jersey (36): Governor Robert Meyner will probably get 35½ favorite-son votes on the first ballot, with the other ½ going to Kefauver. After that, probably a split, then a shift to the man who looks like the winner...
Robert B. Meyner, 47, Governor of New Jersey, the first Democratic boss to beat Estes Kefauver in this year's primaries. (He killed him with kindness.) Meyner controls probably two-thirds of New Jersey's 36 convention votes, was pro-Stevenson in 1952, this time is playing the wait-and-see game. He is vice-presidential possibility...
...Hand. At 47, New Jersey's Meyner is an old hand at upsetting applecarts. One of the most eligible bachelors in U.S. politics, he practiced law in Jersey City and home-town Phillipsburg, went to the state senate in 1947, became one of the leaders in ousting Jersey City's Boss Frank Hague from the seat of Democratic power in 1949. Four years later Meyner was nominated for governor. He promptly announced that, win or lose in the general election, he was assuming direct personal leadership of the state organization and intended to retain it for the next...
...moment of taking office, Meyner became one of the most powerful of U.S. governors. Under the New Jersey constitution, the governor is the only elected official in the executive branch. He has almost absolute power in appointing cabinet officers (the fact that four of Meyner's cabinet officers are Republicans has caused some major Democratic grumbling). Says Meyner: "I have great opportunities to do a job of service without legislation." This helps, since the New Jersey legislature is Republican...