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New! * Buying a Home COVID-19 Resources On May 12 of 1932 Ten weeks after his abduction from his bedroom at the family home, Charles Lindbergh, Jr., the infant son of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, is found dead in woods near Hopewell, just a few miles from the Lindbergh home. Bruno Richard Hauptmann is later convicted and executed for the crime in the electric chair at Trenton State Prison on April 3, 1936. On May 11 of 1917 Frank Hague is elected mayor of Jersey City by fellow members of the city commission whom he had led to victory in the municipal election. He would continue as mayor while serving as a powerful state and national Democratic political boss until retiring in 1947. His power was symbolized by his declaration: "Listen, here is the law! I am the law!" On May 10 of 1869 The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Point, Utah, with the driving of a golden spike in the last rail by Leland Stanford, president of the Southern Pacific Railroad. The Union Pacific Locomotive No. 119, one of the two locomotives at the ceremony, was built by the Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works of Paterson. 
On May 9 of 1974 The Committee on the Judiciary of the US House of Representatives chaired by New Jersey Democratic Congressman Peter M. Rodino, Jr., begins formal hearings to consider impeachment of President Richard Nixon related to the Watergate burglary and other matters. On May 8 of 1945 The end of fighting in World War II is celebrated with VE Day. Thousands of the returning troops pass through the Port of Bayonne in Hudson County and Camp Kilmer in Middlesex County, which processes over 2.5 million soldiers on their way to and from Europe, the largest processing center during the conflict. |
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"The Prudential has the strength of Gibraltar" ad in 1909
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