Carole Anderson Graves (born April 15, 1938, in Newark, New Jersey) is an American Democratic Party politician and labor leader who served three terms as the elected Essex County Register of Deeds and Mortgages and 27 years as the president of the Newark Teachers Union.
After graduating high school, she worked for the telephone company before attending college.
She was arrested during the 1970 strike and spent three months in the Essex County Jail on contempt charges.
[1] Graves was defeated for re-election as president of the Newark Teachers Union in 1995 by Joseph Del Grosso by a vote of 1,809 to 1,015, after filing a lawsuit to block the state takeover of the Newark public school system.
[2] In 1981, Graves ran for the New Jersey General Assembly, challenging incumbents Willie B.