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  Legislative giant for four decades [Former N.J. St. Sen. Byron Baer] dies at 77
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Last EditedRMF  Jun 24, 2007 12:10pm
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News DateSunday, June 24, 2007 11:15:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionByron Baer, a hardworking and effective legislator who wrote the state's open public meeting law, died early today. He was 77 and had been sick for the last several years.

A Bergen County Democrat, Baer first went to Trenton in after the 1965 election as an aide to Arnold Brown, the first African American to represent Bergen County in the Legislature. Brown lost his bid for re-election in 1967, and Baer won the seat back in a competitive 1971 campaign. He spent 22 years in the Assembly and moved up to the Senate in 1993 when Matthew Feldman retired.

He resigned from the Senate in the summer of 2005, due to health reasons, and has spent the last year in an assisted living center in Englewood, his hometown.
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