John J. Horn (November 2, 1917 – January 6, 1999) was an American labor leader and Democratic Party politician.
[1] Raised in Camden, he played football at Woodrow Wilson High School and went on to graduate from Rutgers University–Camden.
[3] A 20-year resident of Seaside Park, Horn died on January 6, 1999, at Ocean County Medical Center in Brick Township.
[9] The assembly's special investigation committee chastised two legislators, but found that there was no evidence to support the claims against Horn and three other elected officials.
[15] In December 1976, acting commissioner Horn advocated on behalf of passage of a proposed Illegal Alien Employment Prohibition Act that was being considered by a committee in the New Jersey Senate under which fines would be imposed on companies that hired undocumented workers; Horn cited data showing that the state had 360,000 people out of work and an unemployment rate of 11.3% that was one of the nation's highest, while an estimate from the federal government's Immigration and Naturalization Service found that the state had 200,000 undocumented workers, and he stated that "the estimated number of illegal aliens holding jobs represent more than half of our total unemployed".
[18] After leaving his office in the executive branch, Horn worked as a lobbyist in the 1980s and was named to the Mid-Atlantic Fishing Commission in 1989 by President Bill Clinton.