Michael J. Doherty (born May 24, 1963) is an American Republican Party politician who has served as the surrogate of Warren County, New Jersey since November 30, 2022.
from the United States Military Academy at West Point, and was commissioned as an officer in the Field Artillery.
His unit's mission was to utilize nuclear armed missiles to defend Western Europe and NATO forces from possible Soviet aggression.
He prevailed in a showdown with a Superior Court judge who threatened to jail Doherty unless he issued $5 million in bonds to fund an expansion of Warren County Community College.
The New Jersey Supreme Court sided with Doherty and held that the Freeholder Board was correct to ignore the judge's order.
[10] On January 24, 2009, a special election was held by a convention of Republican committee members from Hunterdon and Warren counties.
[12] He defeated the Democratic candidate Harvey Baron in a special election on November 3, 2009, to fill the remaining two years of the Senate term, garnering 71% of the vote.
In September 2022, Doherty announced that he would retire from the Senate to seek the Warren County Surrogate’s Office.
[18] In February 2012, Doherty announced his support for Joseph M. Kyrillos for the Republican nomination for the 2012 U.S. Senate race.