A condensed version has him attending Princeton, joining the Marines and becoming a successful pharmaceutical executive. Hugin’s rise up until now has had nothing to do with politics. Menendez’ rise through the rigors of Hudson County politics is well-known and need not be repeated here. While Union City is terribly congested, this is still a place that is merely 48 blocks long and less than a mile wide. Senate candidates who grew up in the same city is pretty remarkable. It may mean little to people living elsewhere, but to have two U.S. I do not remember candidate Hugin, but his brother, John, was in my class in elementary school, although we called it grammar school in those days.
Robert Menendez, the incumbent Democrat, grew up in Union City and attended Union Hill.īob Hugin, the leading Republican candidate, grew up in the same city at roughly the same time and attended Emerson.įull disclosure: I grew up in Union City as well and distinctly remember when Menendez first ran for the city school board in 1974.
battle between Emerson and Union Hill high schools at Union City’s Roosevelt Stadium, a creation of the Depression-era WPA.Įmerson and Union Hill high schools are gone, folded into a new Union City High School, which sits, interestingly, on the ground once occupied by Roosevelt Stadium.īut thanks to the often stranger than fiction nature of politics, the old Emerson-Union Hill battle is about to be rekindled in a very different way. To many sport fans growing up in northern Hudson County, Thanksgiving Day meant high school football, or more precisely the annual 10:30 a.m.
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