18 Facts About Doug Steinhardt

Douglas Joseph Steinhardt was born on November 6,1968 and is an American attorney and politician from New Jersey who is the State Senator for New Jersey's 23rd legislative district, since being sworn into office on December 19,2022.

Doug Steinhardt previously served as the Chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee from 2017 to 2020.

In 2015, Doug Steinhardt was inducted into the Warren County, New Jersey Hall of Fame, joining his mother Therese, a nurse and nurse educator, who was inducted in 2013.

Doug Steinhardt ran on controlling development, and challenged Baker to debates, which Baker declined to participate in.

Doug Steinhardt ran and won with no opposition for the next three elections.

Doug Steinhardt declined to run for a sixth term in 2014 and was succeeded by Tom McKay.

Doug Steinhardt was elected Chairman of the Warren County Republican Committee on January 31,2004 to fill the unexpired term of the outgoing chair who resigned to focus on private sector opportunities.

Doug Steinhardt ran on the idea of promoting inclusion among Republican committee members, some of whom often complained about a lack of communications within the county committee.

In that year, Doug Steinhardt faced opposition because he had lost his Lopatcong committee seat, though only by five votes.

Doug Steinhardt was initially nominated by Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno and Republican Primary nominee to be the Chairman of the New Jersey State Republican Committee in June 2017 but a last minute appointment by the then Governor of his wife to a position with the parole board caused concern for the Lt.

Six months later in November 2017, after the Democratic victory in the ensuing gubernatorial election, Lavery resigned and Doug Steinhardt was named Chairman.

Doug Steinhardt resigned as Chairman in December 2020 and launched a bid for Governor of New Jersey in the Republican primary.

Doug Steinhardt positioned himself as a staunch supporter of outgoing President Donald Trump.

In September 2022, following the announcement that longtime State Senator Michael J Doherty would retire to seek the Warren County Surrogate's Office, Steinhardt announced that he would run in a special election convention for Doherty's vacated senate seat representing the 23rd legislative district.

Doug Steinhardt was elected to the seat unopposed on December 10,2022 at a special convention.

Doug Steinhardt was sworn into office on December 19,2022.

Doug Steinhardt was on the Board of Directors of the Central New Jersey Council of the Boy Scouts of America as of 2011.

In January 2017 Doug Steinhardt co-founded and co-chairs the Warren County Addiction Awareness Task Force to address the spiraling heroin and opioid epidemics.