Chuck Hardwick
| Chuck Hardwick | |
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| New Jersey Assemblyman | |
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In office January 1978 – January 1992 |
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| Preceded by | Frank X. McDermott |
| Succeeded by | Richard Bagger |
| Assembly Speaker | |
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In office January 1986 – January 1990 |
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| Preceded by | Alan Karcher |
| Succeeded by | Joseph Doria |
| Assembly Minority Leader | |
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In office January 1985 – January 1986 |
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| Preceded by | Dean Gallo |
| Succeeded by | Alan Karcher |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Charles Leighton Hardwick November 8, 1941 Somerset, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Patricia Johnson Hardwick; Sheilagh Mylott |
| Religion | Lutheran |
Charles Leighton Hardwick (born November 8, 1941) is an American Republican Party politician and business leader who served as Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly and was a candidate for Governor of New Jersey.
Hardwick November 8, 1941 in Somerset, Kentucky, the son of Joseph Fulton Hardwick (1901–1973), a maintenance worker for Wonder Bread, and Lucy Belle Hall Hardwick (1902–1946). His mother died of heart failure at age 44, when Hardwick was five years old. He attended Central High School in Akron, Ohio. Hardwick was graduated from The Florida State University with BS and MBA degrees in 1964. He attended college on a scholarship provided by Wonder Bread.
Hardwick joined Pfizer Inc. in 1966 and held a number of positions in Government and public affairs and in marketing before becoming Vice President, Government and Public Affairs in 1997. He was appointed Senior Vice President, Government Relations and Public Affairs of Pfizer Inc. in March 2001 and previously served as its Vice President. Mr. Hardwick was a Senior Vice President, Worldwide Government & Public Affairs of Pfizer. He retired in 2005 and 39 years with Pfizer. He was a member of the Pfizer Leadership Team, the company's most senior management committee. During his tenure at Pfizer, the company grew from $500 million in worldwide sales to $50 billion. At Pfizer he was President of the Pfizer Foundation and worked closely with then CEO Hank McKinnell on providing healthcare assistance to HIV AIDs patients in the US and Africa, especially in Uganda. He spent three months in Vietnam working on the eradication of Trachoma, a treatable disease that leads to blindness if untreated.
Hardwick entered politics in 1974 as a candidate for Fourth Ward Councilman in Westfield, New Jersey. Despite the Democratic landslide in the Watergate year, Hardwick came within 54 votes of unseating incumbent Councilman Lawrence Weiss, 1,569 to 1,515.
He ran for Union County Freeholder in 1976 against incumbent Democrats Harold Seymour, Thomas Long and Everett Lattimore, but lost. The good news for Hardwick was that two years after losing a Council race, he carried Westfield by 4,300 votes.
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