Frederic Remington (politician)

Frederic Remington Jr. (November 14, 1929 – January 2, 2016) was an American Republican Party politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1978 to 1982.

Remington graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in Elizabeth, New Jersey and attended Temple University and Newark College of Engineering.

[3] In 1967, Remington became a candidate for the New Jersey State Senate, but lost the Republican Primary by just 156 votes, 19,243 to 19,087, to Milton Waldor, who went on to win the General Election.

He won the Republican Primary, finishing second in a field of seven candidates; he defeated Wayne Mayor Newton Edward Miller by 1,237 votes, 7,685 to 6,448.

Burgio and Remington both wanted to run for the Senate, but when their shared hometown of North Caldwell, New Jersey was moved into a different district, neither of them ran for anything.