20 Facts About James Wallwork

James Harold Wallwork was an American Republican Party politician who served in both houses of the New Jersey Legislature and twice sought the Republican nomination for Governor.

James Wallwork grew up in Montclair, New Jersey, graduated from Montclair High School in 1948 and was a 1952 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point.

James Wallwork attended the General Staff War College, where he finished first in his class of 400, and the Army Engineering School.

James Wallwork was the Company Commander of a Combat Engineer Company with the Army of Occupation in Germany.

James Wallwork was later a resident of the Short Hills section of Millburn, New Jersey.

James Wallwork was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly in 1963, winning one of nine at-large seats.

James Wallwork won a hotly contested primary on a Reform Republican slate, finishing first in a field of thirteen candidates for six Senate seats elected at-Large in Essex County.

James Wallwork finished third in the General Election, a race where Democrats won three of the five Senate seats.

James Wallwork finished more than 6,000 votes ahead of Democrat Martin Greenberg.

James Wallwork's running mate was Assemblyman, later Governor, Thomas Kean.

James Wallwork was re-elected in 1977 against Democrat Lewis J Paper, a former US Senate aide and White House intern.

James Wallwork won by 12,421 votes, 35,517 to 23,096.

James Wallwork served as the Senate Minority Whip in 1978 and 1979, and as the Assistant Minority Leader in 1980 and 1981.

James Wallwork lost to Kean, who won the general election.

On March 2,1993, James Wallwork made a late and surprising entrance into the 1993 Republican gubernatorial primary.

James Wallwork billed himself as a conservative businessman, and pledged to "repeal every dime" of Governor Jim Florio's $2.8 billion tax increase.

James Wallwork admitted at his announcement that his campaign had just two staffers and that he had not yet raised enough to air his first television commercial.

Governor Christine Todd Whitman appointed James Wallwork to serve as the Commissioner for New Jersey on the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor.

In 1965, James Wallwork married Lark Lataner of Orange, New Jersey.

James Wallwork died in Bethesda on October 23,2024, at the age of 94.