Gerald Cardinale

Gerald Cardinale (born February 27 1934) is an American Republican Party politician, who has been serving in the New Jersey State Senate since 1982, where he represents the 39th Legislative District.

Cardinale served in the State Senate as Deputy Majority Leader from 1994-2001, as Majority Whip from 1992-1993, as Assistant Minority Leader from 1987-1989 and as Minority Whip from 1985-1986.

He serves on the Commerce Committee, the Judiciary Committee, the Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards, the Joint Legislative Committee on Public School Funding Reform and the Legislative Oversight Committee.

Before his service as State Senator, Cardinale spent one term in the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature, the General Assembly, from 1980-1981. Cardinale served as Mayor of Demarest from 1975-1979, and was a trustee of the Demarest Board of Education from 1967-1973, serving as its President from 1969-1971.

He served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1984, 1988 and 1992 and served as a Delegate to the New Jersey Republican State Platform Committee in 1983.

Senator Cardinale has a B.S. degree from St. John's University (Chemistry) and a D.D.S. from the New York University College of Dentistry. He is a dentist by profession, with offices in Fort Lee, New Jersey.

District 39
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 39th Legislative District are:
 * Assemblyman John E. Rooney, and
 * Assemblywoman Charlotte Vandervalk