Harold Pareti

October 1, 2007 - 1:51pm

Harold Pareti dies

Former Assemblyman and Carlstadt Mayor Harold A. Pareti died yesterday.

He was 85.

Pareti, a lifelong Carlstadt resident, served five terms as the mayor of Carlstadt -- 1959 and 1965, and again from 1967 to 1971.  He served one term in the Assembly, from 1971 to 1973, and ran for state Senate against Anthony Scardino, Jr.  He went on to wage an unsuccessful challenge to  Henry Helstoski for Congress in 1974.

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October 3, 2007 - 1:22pm

Talk about a guy who was always at the wrong place at the wrong time

The political career of Harold Pareti, a very good natured and popular Bergen County Republican who died on Monday at the age of 85, was ended by the Watergate scandal. Pareti, the longtime Mayor of Carlstadt, was elected to the State Assembly in 1971. He lost his bid for a second term by a wide margin in a Democratic landslide that cost the GOP fourteen Senate seats and 25 Assembly seats in an election that came less than two weeks after the Saturday Night Massacre -- President Richard Nixon's firing of Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. He was unseated by Democrat Robert Hollenbeck, the cousin of the Harold Hollenbeck, the Republican State Senator from that district.

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