He was the son of Colonel Anthony R. Kuser and grandson of Senator and Prudential Insurance founder John Fairfield Dryden.

[5] Kuser launched his political career in 1922, at age 25, winning election as a Bernardsville, New Jersey Councilman.

[9] Kuser's political career came to an end in 1935, when his wife, Brooke Russell, divorced him amid allegations of abuse and cruelty.

[10] Democratic Assemblyman James Bowers captured Kuser's State Senate seat that year.

Kuser worked as a consultant to the New Jersey Department of Conservation and Economic Development from 1958 until his death in 1964.

[15] In 1958, he married for the fourth and final time to Grace Egglesfield Gibbons, former wife of John J.