Gordon MacInnes

Gordon A. MacInnes is a Democratic politician from New Jersey who has served twice in the state Legislature. MacInnes was elected to the state Assembly in 1973 in a heavily Republican Morris County district, as part of the Watergate-driven Democratic landslide of that year. He was defeated in his re-election bid in 1975.[1] In 1993, he won election to the state Senate in a major upset over incumbent Senate Majority Leader John Dorsey, again in a heavily Republican district. He again failed to win re-election in 1997, losing to Republican Anthony Bucco,[2] who continues to hold that Senate seat.

MacInnes also served as Assistant Commissioner in the New Jersey Department of Education from 2002 to 2007. He serves as a member of the Board of Governors of Rutgers University.[3] He also is a former executive director of the New Jersey Network.[4]

MacInnes is the president of New Jersey Policy Perspective, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that researches and analyzes economic issues. MacInnes is a fellow at the Century Foundation in New York and was a lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.[5][6]

During the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson, MacInnes was deputy director of the White House Task Force on the Cities.[7]

Personal life

He is married to Blair MacInnes, a philanthropist and former teacher who lives in Morris Township and has served on boards for many civic and charitable organizations.[8] They have three sons and nine grandchildren.[9]

References

  1. ↑ http://forum-network.org/speaker/gordon-macinnes
  2. ↑ http://forum-network.org/speaker/gordon-macinnes
  3. ↑ http://news.rutgers.edu/medrel/news-releases/2010/02/education-expert-gor-20100202
  4. ↑ http://www.equaleducation.org/press.asp?staff=60
  5. ↑ Rutgers University news release "Education Expert Gordon A. MacInnes Inducted to Rutgers’ Board of Governors" February 18, 2010
  6. ↑ Biography at Center for American Progress
  7. ↑ Preface Wrong for All the Right Reasons: How White Liberals Have Been Undone by Race By Gordon Macinnes
  8. ↑
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