C. Robert Sarcone
| C. Robert Sarcone | |
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| New Jersey State Senator | |
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In office January 1964 – January 1966 |
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| Preceded by | Donal C. Fox |
| Succeeded by | Hutchins F. Inge |
| New Jersey Assemblyman | |
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In office January 1964 – January 1966 |
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| Preceded by | Daniel F. Flynn |
| Succeeded by | James Wallwork |
| Assembly Minority Leader | |
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In office January 1962 – January 1963 |
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| Preceded by | Carmine Savino |
| Succeeded by | Alfred Beadleston |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
August 3, 1925 Newark, New Jersey |
C. Robert (Bob) Sarcone (born August 3, 1925 in Newark, New Jersey), is an American Republican Party politician. He served in both houses of the New Jersey State Legislature, and sought the Republican nomination for Governor of New Jersey in 1977.
He was born August 3, 1925 in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Fioravante Sarcone, an electrician and immigrant from Italy, and Rosse Sarcone, who was born in New Jersey to Italian immigrants. He was a 1943 graduate of Barringer High School, attended Muhlenberg College and Columbia University, and received his law degree from Rutgers University Law School in 1949. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II from February 1943 to August 1946. He was stationed in the Pacific Theater and served in Iwo Jima and Okinawa; he was present at Bikini Atoll for the testing of the Atomic Bomb.
Sarcone was appointed Special Legal Assistant to the Essex County Prosecutor in 1956, and became an Assistant Essex County Prosecutor in 1957. He was appointed Deputy Attorney General of New Jersey in 1959.
He was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly in 1959, running At-Large for one of 12 Essex County seats in the legislature. He finished second out of 24 candidates, unseating incumbent Democratic Assemblyman Daniel F. Flynn by 4,769 votes, 116,284 to 111,515.
He was narrowly re-elected to a second term in 1961. Democrats won eight of nine Essex Assembly seats that year; Sarcone finished ninth, defeating Albert Poll, a former Essex County Counsel and Assistant Essex County Prosecutor, by just 188 votes, 127,539 to 127,351.
He was the Assembly Minority Leader in 1962.
In 1963, his Assembly seat was won by James Wallork, Sarcone's 33-year-old Legislative Aide.
The retirement of two term Democratic Senator Donal C. Fox in 1963 set up an epic battle for the Essex County Senate seat between Sarcone, Assembly Speaker Elmer Matthews, and George C. Richardson, a Black Democratic Assemblyman who was running as an Independent. All three were young political stars.
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