Walter Rand was an American

United States

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 Democratic Party

Democratic Party (United States)

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 politician

Politician

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 from New Jersey

New Jersey

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, who was a specialist on transportation issues while serving in both houses of the New Jersey Legislature

New Jersey Legislature

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. Rand was a resident of Bellmawr

Bellmawr, New Jersey

-Local government:Bellmawr is governed under the borough form of New Jersey municipal government. The government consists of a mayor and a borough council comprising six council members, with all positions elected at large. A mayor is elected directly by the voters to a four-year term of office...

.

Rand was born in Philadelphia and attended the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

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. He moved to Camden

Camden, New Jersey

The city of Camden is the county seat of Camden County, New Jersey. It is located across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city had a total population of 77,344...

, where he was an elected member of the board of education from 1971 to 1974.

He was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly

New Jersey General Assembly

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 in 1975 and to the New Jersey Senate

New Jersey Senate

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 in 1981, where he was a former chairman of the Senate Transportation and Public Utilities Committee.

Rand sponsored laws that created New Jersey's Transportation Trust Fund, which combined aid received from the Federal government, state appropriations and highway bond proceeds to pay for an accelerated road building and repair program. He wrote the bill that led to creation of the South Jersey Transportation Authority

South Jersey Transportation Authority

The South Jersey Transportation Authority is a quasi-private agency created by the New Jersey Legislature in 1991 to manage transportation-related services in the six South Jersey counties: Atlantic, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem....

 and allowed Atlantic City International Airport

Atlantic City International Airport

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 to expand.

After Rand's death in 1995, Wayne R. Bryant

Wayne R. Bryant

Wayne R. Bryant is a convicted felon, an American Democratic Party politician, who served in the New Jersey State Senate from 1995 to 2008, where he represented the 5th Legislative District...

 was named to fill his seat in the State Senate.

The Walter Rand Transportation Center

Walter Rand Transportation Center

The Walter Rand Transportation Center is a transportation hub located at Martin Luther King Boulevard and Broadway in Camden, New Jersey, named for Walter Rand, a former New Jersey State Senator, who specialized in transportation issues while serving in both houses of the New Jersey Legislature...

 in Camden is appropriately named in his honor, as is the Senator Walter Rand Institute for Public Affairs established at the Rutgers-Camden

Rutgers-Camden

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campus in 1999.