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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), New Jersey Legislature. Accessed June 14, 2010. - ↑ Staff. "FOR THE NEW JERSEY LEGISLATURE, 15 NEW FACES", Philadelphia Inquirer , November 10, 1983. Accessed June 14, 2010. "Zecker will fill the seat vacated by Republican Assemblyman SM 'Terry' LaCorte, who gave up re-election to mount an unsuccessful primary challenge against the district's Republican senator, Joseph L. Bubba."
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