Posted by Jack Rafferty Obituary – Cause of Death: John K. “Jack” Rafferty, a one-time New Jersey state assemblyman anyway likewise called the drawn-out city lobby head of Hamilton, Mercer County, passed on Wednesday at 82 years of age.
Rafferty dedicated around 30 years of his life to public assistance, serving six years on the then Hamilton Township Committee (as of now Council) before being picked the region’s first full-time metro director from 1976 to 1999. From 1986 to 1988, he also tended to the fourteenth Legislative District in the state Assembly.
The noteworthy Republican is generally credited with coordinating a period and during the 1980s and 1990s during which Hamilton made its character, besides being just the rustic town near the state capital.
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Under his residency, Hamilton formed into one of the Garden State’s greatest areas. The Hamilton Hospital (as of now known as the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in Hamilton), the Hamilton Train Station, and the Veterans Park all showed up during his mayorship.
Both the YMCA office on Whitehorse-Mercerville Road, likewise Hamilton’s guideline mailing station on Route 130, bear Rafferty’s name. He’d crusade the focal government for a serious long ideal opportunity for the U.S. Postal Service to see Hamilton postal regions as “Hamilton” as opposed to the drawn-out postage data of “Trenton, N.J.” – a change that occurred in 1992.
In 1980, Rafferty filled in as the co-regulator of past President Ronald Reagan’s New Jersey campaign. Following a year, he ran for authoritative head of New Jersey. He finished seventh in the Republican fundamental, which was won by conceivable Gov. Thomas Kean.