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W.
Cary Edwards
Attorney General
1986-1989
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W. Cary Edwards was born in Paterson, New
Jersey on July 20, 1944. He graduated from
St. Luke’s High School and studied business
administration at Seton Hall University, where
he received his degree in 1967. He attended
Seton Hall School of Law and received his
degree in 1970, the year he was admitted to
the New Jersey Bar.
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Edwards was sworn in as Attorney General on
January 21, 1986, the day of Governor Thomas
Kean’s second Inauguration, after serving
as Chief Counsel to the Governor since the
beginning of the Kean administration in 1982.
Edwards had been elected to his third consecutive
term in the General Assembly and had been
chosen by his Republican colleagues as assistant
minority leader when Governor Kean recruited
him as Counsel.
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While serving as Attorney General, Edwards
immediately sought to more than triple the
size of the Department of Law and Public Safety
and initiated a new anti-drug program. He
instituted a task force to combat organized
crime, planned a virtual overhaul of the Division
of Motor Vehicles, and confronted problems
such as insurance fraud and state land use
planning.
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