by design | Jul 5, 2026 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Joseph Irwin France was not at all a conventional politician, especially for his time. Depending upon one’s point of view, France could be seen as either a visionary or an eccentric. Senator France was adamantly against ratifying the Treaty of Versailles,...
by design | Jun 28, 2026 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Walter Evans Edge was the very definition of a self-made man, turning a borrowed $500 into a thriving business which, in turn, made him quite wealthy. Edge was also lucky in politics, being twice elected governor of New Jersey in two nonconsecutive...
by design | Jun 21, 2026 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Harold G. Hoffman was a young man in a hurry, climbing the ladder of both the business and political worlds simultaneously. Hoffman was successful, walking the halls of the mighty in the U.S. House of Representatives and being elected to a three-year term...
by design | Jun 14, 2026 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Arthur Harry Moore is not a name familiar outside of New Jersey, but in his time, Harry Moore was one of the best vote-getters in the Garden State’s history. Three times Moore was elected to nonconsecutive terms as governor of New Jersey and was also...
by design | Jun 7, 2026 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Charles Edison was the son of one of America’s foremost innovators and entrepreneurs, Thomas Alva Edison. Thomas A. Edison is perhaps the best remembered inventor in American history. Yet when Charles Edison died, the Paterson Morning Call...
by design | May 31, 2026 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Some years ago, both political parties in Connecticut were careful to bolster their respective tickets with ethnically balanced tickets. Aside from the old “Yankee” population, there were Jews, Italians and a substantial Polish population to think about. ...
