John A. Girgenti (born August 8, 1947) is an American Democratic Party politician, who has been serving in the New Jersey Senate since 1990, where he represents the 35th Legislative District.
Senator Girgenti is currently the Majority Whip, a post he has held since 2004. He serves in the Senate on the Law and Public Safety and Veterans' Affairs Committee (as Chair), the Judiciary Committee (as Vice-Chair) and the Wagering, Tourism & Historic Preservation Committee.[1]
Senator Girgenti has sponsored many important pieces of legislation that have become law, including a measure that requires a life sentence of community supervision for certain convicted sexual offenders who have completed their prison terms, and legislation that mandates and provides funding for sprinkler installation in New Jersey college dorms, following the Seton Hall University dormitory fire in 2000. He has also championed the law criminalizing the desecration of human remains, helping families preserve the dignity and respect of their deceased loved ones and has worked to keep criminals from profiting off of the sales of 'murderabilia.' He has also been opposed to the sale of realistic or replica toy guns to children and was a prime sponsor of the law mandating child-proof firearms or 'Smart Guns' be sold in the State.
Senator Girgenti was one of the first Senators to call for enhanced fingerprinting requirements for state employees involved with domestic security, following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and has fought hard to update and modernize New Jersey's background check laws so that towns and communities can identify potential threats and prevent them from obtaining jobs where they could harm residents.
The Senator has also fought to create the State Public Safety Interoperable Communications Coordinating Council, which would allow first responders — police, firefighters and emergency workers — to communicate between agencies on a single assigned radio frequency. Girgenti has also pushed for increased aid to the New Jersey National Guard, helping to enact legislation which increases the base pay of Guard members when on active duty in the State. On January 7, 2010 the Senator voted against a measure that would have permitted same-sex marriages in the state of New Jersey.[2]
Before entering the Senate, Girgenti served in the New Jersey General Assembly, the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature, from 1978 to 1990. While in the Assembly, the Senator served as Deputy Majority Leader in 1990, and Assistant Minority Leader from 1986 to 1989.[1] In March 1990, he was chosen by district Democrats to fill the Senate seat left vacant by the death of Frank X. Graves, Jr., and was sworn into the Senate on April 5, 1990.[3]
Girgenti served on the Hawthorne Board of Education from 1972-1976, serving as its Vice President from 1972-1973.[1] The Senator is a former director of the Passaic County Mental Health Department. He was appointed to the County Mental Health Board in 1976 and became board president four months later.
Girgenti received a B.A. in 1969 from Seton Hall University in Political Science and an M.A. in 1972 from St. John's University in Government and Public Administration.[1] He was born in Paterson, New Jersey, and currently resides in Hawthorne.[4]
Each of the forty districts in the New Jersey Legislature has one representative in the New Jersey Senate and two members in the New Jersey General Assembly. The other representatives from the 35th District for the 2008-2009 Legislative Session are:
| Current members of the New Jersey
Senate
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1: Jeff Van Drew (D) |
11: Sean T. Kean (R) |
21: Thomas Kean, Jr. (R) |
31: Sandra Bolden Cunningham
(D) |
| Democrat (22 seats) | Republican (17 seats) | |||
GIRGENTI (anc. Agrigentum, q.v.), a town of Sicily, capital of the province which bears its name, and an episcopal see, on the south coast, 58 m. S. by E. of Palermo direct and 841 m. by rail. Population (1901) 25,024. The town is built on the western summit of the ridge which formed the northern portion of the ancient site; the main street runs from E. to W. on the level, but the side streets are steep and narrow. The cathedral occupies the highest point in the town; it was not founded till the 13th century, taking the place of the so-called temple of Concord. The campanile still preserves portions of its original architecture, but the interior has been modernized. In the chapter-house a famous sarcophagus, with scenes illustrating the myth of Hippolytus, is preserved. There are other scattered remains of 13th-century architecture in the town, while, in the centre of the ancient city, close to the so-called oratory of Phalaris, is the Norman church of S. Nicolo. A small museum in. the town contains vases, terra-cottas, a few sculptures, &c. The port of Girgenti, s1 m. S.W. by rail, now known as Porto Empedocle (population in 1901, 11,529), as the principal place of shipment for sulphur, the mining district beginning immediately north of Girgenti. (T. As.)
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