If confirmed, the former Garden State GOP leader would become the first serving legislator to assume the post since President ...

Bill Tompkins has been the founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Collections Program since 1993. Tompkins serves as a principal advisor to Smithsonian senior management, unit directors and ...

Hutchins Inge (1900-2002) was the first Black to serve in the New Jersey State Senate.  A Newark physician, Inge was elected ...

William “Bill” Mackenzie Tompkins, age 87, passed away at home, surrounded by his family on Monday Jan. 11, 2016. He was born in Cleveland on Aug. 30, 1928, and he was a 1946 graduate of ...