Jim Florio, a former boxer and eight-term congressman, was governor from 1990-94.
As a congressman from South Jersey, Florio authored the nation’s Superfund law to clean up heavily polluted sites that plagued New Jersey.
Florio was born and raised in Brooklyn but graduated from Trenton State College — now the College of New Jersey — and received his law degree from Rutgers-Camden. In addition to authoring the Superfund law to clean up toxic sites, he presided over legislation on the environment and transportation, including measures boosting Amtrak. He also wrote the law to save the country’s freight railroads.
Florio declined to challenge Kean in 1985, but his third run at the governor’s office was the charm. He thrashed Republican congressman Jim Courter in 1989 to succeed Kean as governor.The hard-driving Democrat got out the gate fast: Within six months, he signed major legislation reforming auto insurance, enacting the semi-automatic weapon ban and revamping New Jersey’s school funding system to send more money to the poorest districts.
Though he worked with Republicans on other big issues and nearly every other state also raised taxes in the following years, Florio became nationally known for the voter revolt.
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