Robert Del Tufo Explained

Robert Del Tufo
Office:Attorney General of New Jersey
Governor:James Florio
Term Start:January 16, 1990
Term End:August 24, 1993
Predecessor:Peter N. Perretti, Jr.
Successor:Deborah Poritz
Office1:United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey
President1:Jimmy Carter
Term Start1:1977
Term End1:1980
Predecessor1:Jonathan L. Goldstein
Successor1:William W. Robertson (acting)
Birth Date:18 November 1933
Birth Place:Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Education:Princeton University (BA)
Yale University (LLB)

Robert J. Del Tufo (November 18, 1933 – March 2, 2016) was an American lawyer. He was the Attorney General of New Jersey from 1990 to 1993.

Biography

Del Tufo was born in 1933 in Newark, New Jersey, to Raymond and Mary Del Tufo. His older brother, Raymond Del Tufo, Jr., later served as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey. He graduated from the Newark Academy and received a BA degree in 1955 from Princeton University. He received his LLB degree from Yale Law School in 1958. From 1958 to 1960, he served as legal secretary to Chief Justice Joseph Weintraub of the New Jersey Supreme Court. He was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1959 and practiced law in Morristown, New Jersey, from 1960 to 1974, and in Newark, New Jersey, from 1980 to 1986.

He served as an assistant prosecutor in Morris County from 1963 to 1965 and as first assistant prosecutor there from 1965 to 1967. Del Tufo held the position of U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 1977 until resigning in 1980. He sought the Democratic nomination for Governor of New Jersey in 1985, losing in the primary to Essex County executive Peter Shapiro, who in turn lost to Thomas Kean in the general election.[1] He was sworn in as Attorney General on January 16, 1990, the day of Governor James Florio's inauguration, resigning in 1993 to join the New York City firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.[2]

On March 5, 1994, Del Tufo married Katherine Nouri Hughes, vice president of communications for the Milken Family Foundation.[3] She was previously married to Emmet John Hughes, a journalist and aide to President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

In February 2006, Governor Jon Corzine appointed Del Tufo Chairman the Board of Trustees of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.[4]

He died on March 2, 2016, of lung cancer.[5] [6] Del Tufo had been a resident of Morris Township, New Jersey.[7]

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://politickernj.com/bob-del-tufo-marty-greenberg-war "The Bob Del Tufo - Marty Greenberg War"
  2. https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CEFDA123DF93AA15757C0A965958260 "Del Tufo Leaving Post In Trenton"
  3. https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E03EFDC123AF935A35750C0A962958260 "Katherine Hughes, Robert J. Del Tufo"
  4. http://www.state.nj.us/governor/news/news/approved/20060209.html "Corzine Names New UMDNJ Board Members"
  5. Web site: Robert del Tufo, 82, ex-N.J. Attorney general.
  6. Web site: Former NJ Attorney General Robert del Tufo Dies at 82 - Law360.
  7. Staff. "Del Tufo Enters Race for Governor", The New York Times, February 21, 1985. Accessed September 4, 2014. "The 51-year-old lawyer, who lives in Morris Township, said that if elected, he would 'wage war' against organized crime.