Edward R. McGlynn, an American Republican Party politician, served as Chief of Staff to New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean.
He is the brother of Richard McGlynn, a former Superior Court Judge and state utilities regulator who lost the 1981 Republican gubernatorial primary to Kean.
His father, William E. McGlynn, was a two-term Councilman in Kearny, New Jersey and an unsuccessful candidate for Congress against Peter Rodino in 1954.
[1] McGlynn is a graduate of McKendree College, Lebanon, Ill. After college, he worked as a Labor Relations Representative for General Motors Corporation, and was responsible for negotiating grievance settlements with the United Auto Workers of America.
He later attended Seton Hall University Law School at night and during the day worked as an Investigator with the Essex County Prosecutors office.