Senator ronald rice biography books
Article on Ronald Rice, 60, New Jersey state senator and former Newark city councilman who is running for mayor against year-old Cory.
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An iconic Newark maverick whose boyhood in the South under Jim Crow laws shaped Ronald Rice’s lifelong mission as a fierce and unwavering advocate of social justice and racial equality.
He was unwavering in his advocacy of the underprivileged and extraordinarily unafraid of any political consequences that resulted in his unwillingness to compromise his principles.
Rice spent nearly 36 years in the New Jersey State Senate, becoming the longest-serving Black legislator in New Jersey history before health issues forced him to resign in the summer of 2022.
A U.S.
Marine Corps veteran who served in Vietnam and a former police officer, Rice entered politics in 1982, winning a Newark City Council seat to represent the West Ward. He was re-elected three times and spent sixteen years on the council.
He was elected to the State Senate in a 1986 special election following the death of John P.
Caufield. He has been re-elected eleven times.
Assemblyman Michael Adubato, who has spent thir