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.
[9] "He was a dynamic campaigner, very articulate and very well respected and loved in the community," said Assemblyman Ralph R. Caputo said in a 2010 interview about Sarcone.
[11][12] In 1965, after the U.S. Supreme Court, in Reynolds v. Sims (more commonly known as one man, one vote) required redistricting by state legislatures for districts to keep represented populations equal, as well as requiring both houses of state legislatures to have districts drawn that contained roughly equal populations, and to perform redistricting when needed, the number of senate seats up for election that year from Essex County increased to four.
[13] Sarcone ran for re-election on a ticket with former U.S. Attorney William F. Tompkins, Assemblyman (and future New Jersey Attorney General) Irwin I. Kimmelman, and James E. Churchman, Jr., a funeral director and the first black Republican to win a major party nomination for State Senator.
[15] Sarcone and his other Republican running mates lost in 1965, the victim of a landslide re-election victory by Governor Richard J. Hughes that had clear coattails in legislative races.
[18] Sarcone's political career was derailed in 1967 when he was indicted by an Essex County Grand Jury on a criminal charge.
[20] His defeat in the 1965 Senate re-election campaign and his 1967 indictment ended talk of a Sarcone for Governor candidacy in 1969, when term limits would prevent Hughes from running again.
Sarcone sought a political comeback in 1975 as a candidate for Essex County Republican Chairman, but lost to the incumbent, Frederic Remington, in what was described as a bitter contest.
[21] In 1977, Sarcone sought the Republican nomination for Governor, finishing third in a field of four candidates, behind State Senator Raymond Bateman and Assembly Minority Leader Thomas Kean.