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    Joseph Doria

    American politician

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    Joseph doria biography

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    Joseph V. Doria Jr. (born June 28, 1946) is an American Democratic Partypolitician, who served as Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs in the cabinet of GovernorJon Corzine from 2007 until his resignation in July 2009.

    He is a former Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly, State Senator for the 31st Legislative District, and a former Mayor of Bayonne, a position he held from July 1998 to October 2007.

    Biography

    On June 9, 2004, Doria was unanimously chosen by the Democratic County Committee members from the 31st Legislative District to fill the vacancy as interim Senator following the death of Jersey CityMayor and Senator Glenn Cunningham.[1] He was elected to the remainder of Cunningham's Senate term in a 2004 special election, defeating then Assemblyman Anthony Chiappone.

    While his Senate term was sc