Robert J. Del Tufo was the Attorney General of New Jersey from 1990 – 1993.

Biography

Del Tufo was born in 1933 in Newark, New Jersey

Newark, New Jersey

Newark is the largest city in the American state of New Jersey, and the seat of Essex County. As of the 2010 United States Census, Newark had a population of 277,140, maintaining its status as the largest municipality in New Jersey. It is the 68th largest city in the U.S...

 to Raymond and Mary Del Tufo. His older brother, Raymond Del Tufo, Jr.

Raymond Del Tufo, Jr.

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, would later serve as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey

United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey

The U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey is the chief federal law enforcement officer in New Jersey. Paul J. Fishman was sworn into office as U.S. Attorney on October 14, 2009 after having been nominated by President Barack Obama. He succeeded Ralph J. Marra, who served as Acting U.S....

. He graduated from the Newark Academy

Newark Academy

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 and received a B.A.

Bachelor of Arts

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 degree in 1955 from Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

. He received his LLB

Bachelor of Laws

The Bachelor of Laws is an undergraduate, or bachelor, degree in law originating in England and offered in most common law countries as the primary law degree...

 degree from Yale Law School

Yale Law School

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 in 1958. From 1958 to 1960, he served as legal secretary to Chief Justice Joseph Weintraub

Joseph Weintraub

Joseph Weintraub was Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1957 to 1973. He previously served as an Associate Justice of the same court in 1956-57.-Biography:Among the landmark decisions authored by Weintraub was Robinson v...

 of the New Jersey Supreme Court

New Jersey Supreme Court

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. He was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1959 and practiced law in Morristown, New Jersey

Morristown, New Jersey

Morristown is a town in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the town population was 18,411. It is the county seat of Morris County. Morristown became characterized as "the military capital of the American Revolution" because of its strategic role in the...

 from 1960 to 1974, and in Newark, New Jersey

Newark, New Jersey

Newark is the largest city in the American state of New Jersey, and the seat of Essex County. As of the 2010 United States Census, Newark had a population of 277,140, maintaining its status as the largest municipality in New Jersey. It is the 68th largest city in the U.S...

 from 1980 to 1986.

He served as an assistant prosecutor in Morris County

Morris County, New Jersey

Morris County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey, about west of New York City. According to the United States 2010 Census, the population was 492,276. It is part of the New York Metropolitan Area. Its county seat is Morristown....

 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

Governor of New Jersey

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 in 1985, losing in the primary to Essex

Essex County, New Jersey

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 County executive

County executive

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 Peter Shapiro

Peter Shapiro (politician)

Peter Shapiro is a financial executive and former politician from New Jersey. He was the youngest person ever elected to the New Jersey General Assembly and went on to serve as Essex County executive and as the Democratic nominee for Governor of New Jersey in 1985 against incumbent Thomas Kean.-...

, who in turn lost to Thomas Kean

Thomas Kean

Thomas Howard Kean is an American Republican Party politician, who served as the 48th Governor of New Jersey from 1982 to 1990. Kean is best known globally, however, for his 2002 appointment as Chairman of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, widely known as the...

 in the general election. He was sworn in as Attorney General on January 16, 1990, the day of Governor James Florio

James Florio

James Joseph "Jim" Florio is a Democratic politician who served as the 49th Governor of New Jersey from 1990 to 1994, the first Italian American to hold the position...

's inauguration, resigning in 1993 to join the New York City

New York City

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 firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

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On March 5, 1994, Del Tufo married Katherine Nouri Hughes, vice president of communications for the Milken Family Foundation

Milken Family Foundation

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. She was previously married to Emmet John Hughes

Emmet John Hughes

Emmett John Hughes was a foreign bureau chief for and article editor for Time-Life and an aide and speechwriter for U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower...

, a journalist and aide to President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...

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In February 2006, Governor Jon Corzine

Jon Corzine

Jon Stevens Corzine is the former CEO of Goldman Sachs and of MF Global, and a one time American politician, who served as the 54th Governor of New Jersey from 2006 to 2010. A Democrat, Corzine served five years of a six-year U.S. Senate term representing New Jersey before being elected Governor...

 appointed Del Tufo Chairman the Board of Trustees of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey is the state-run health sciences institution of New Jersey, United States. It has eight distinct academic units...

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