Francis Xavier Herbert (January 11, 1931 – September 25, 2018) was an American school teacher and Democratic Party politician who served a single term in the New Jersey Senate where he represented the 39th Legislative District.
[4] In 1994, Democratic Party officials asked Herbert, then a resident of Sparta Township, to run in the primary against John Kucek in New Jersey's 11th congressional district.
[4] Kucek proclaimed himself as a "Christian populist" was a Holocaust denier and a public admirer of KKK Grand Wizard David Duke.
[9] By then a resident of Rockaway Township, Herbert won the Democratic primary for the party's state senate nomination in the 25th Legislative District in 2007.
Campaigning on a platform that included a proposal to use a portion of revenue from the state's toll roads to fund lower fares on New Jersey Transit and opposing Bucco's vote against state funding for stem cell research, Herbert lost to incumbent Anthony Bucco by 61.5%-38.5%.