TRENTON, N.J.—A longtime New Jersey Democratic powerbroker who helped elect the state’s first black member of Congress has died. Raymond Durkin was 78.
Durkin died Tuesday at St. Barnabas Hospital in Livingston, N.J., of complications related to heart failure and emphysema, his son Christopher told The Associated Press.
From 1980 to 1992, Durkin ran the Essex County Democratic Party. He led the state party from 1985 to 1990.
Raymond Durkin died Tuesday at St. Barnabas Hospital in Livingston, N.J.
