Jack Conners (born July 10, 1943) is an American Democratic Party politician who served in the

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, where he represented the 7th Legislative District from 1998 until his resignation in 2011. In the 1997 elections, Republican Diane Allen left the Assembly and ran for and won the Senate seat, while Democrats Herb Conaway and Conners were declared the winners in that year's Assembly race, after a recount which showed that Conaway was the top vote-getter and Conners winning the second seat by a margin of 74 votes. After eight months in office following his being sworn into office in January 1998, the courts threw out the results of the 1997 election due to problems with 160 uncounted ballots from a voting machine that affected the results for the second seat. Conners was ordered to leave office in September 1998 and Republican Ken Faulkner was seated in his place. In a November 1998 special election, Conners defeated Faulkner by 5,500 votes and was sworn into office for a second time that year. Conners served in the Assembly on the Military and Veterans' Affairs Committee (as Chair), the Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee and the State Government Committee.Assemblyman Conners' legislative web page

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. Accessed February 23, 2008. Conners has served on the board of the Pennsauken High School Foundation, has been a board member of the Pennsauken Free Public Library and previously served as president of the Big Brothers / Big Sisters of Camden &

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Counties. Conners served in the Delaware Army National Guard from 1964 to 1969 and the

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from 1969 to 1970. Conners attended

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and the

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Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. He is a resident of Pennsauken Township. On March 29, 2011, Conners announced that he would not seek another term to the Assembly in 2011, due to the redrawing of his district that moved his hometown of Pennsauken into a district that primarily included Camden County municipalities, while his current district had been largely based in Burlington County. He announced his resignation on August 26, 2011, effective immediately to accept a position with Camden County as its director of veterans' affairs. Conners was succeeded in the Assembly by Troy Singleton, who was selected to fill the vacant seat and defended it as an incumbent in the general election.

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External links

Assemblyman Conners' legislative web page

*''New Jersey Legislature financial disclosure forms''
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Conners, Jack 1943 births Living people United States Army soldiers La Salle University alumni Democratic Party members of the New Jersey General Assembly People from Pennsauken Township, New Jersey Politicians from Camden County, New Jersey Rutgers University alumni Delaware National Guard personnel United States Army reservists 21st-century members of the New Jersey Legislature 20th-century members of the New Jersey Legislature