Bret Schundler

Quick Facts

Full Name	Bret Schundler
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Jan 14, 1959(1959-01-14)
Age	65
Birthplace	Colonia Department
Country	Uruguay
Horoscope	Capricorn

Bret Schundler Biography

Bret Schundler is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on January 14, 1959 in Colonia Department, Uruguay. Bret D. Schundler (born on January 14 1959) is a American politician hailing from New Jersey. He was in his Cabinet under governor Chris Christie as New Jersey Commissioner of Education, until the day he was fired on August 27, 2010.

His first election for elected office was a failed election for New Jersey Senate in 1991 and, regardless of the partisan nature of the contest and the predominantly Democratic constituency in the area (only 6 percent of people who voted were who were registered Republicans), Schundler lost to incumbent Edward T. O’Connor, Jr. in a narrow 55.1 percentage to 44.9 percentage margin. In the following time, Gerald McCann was removed as the mayor in Jersey City because of a conviction that was not connected to his public duties and Schundler ran in the special election to conclude all eight months remaining of McCann’s mandate. Schundler won the election in 17 percent votes in a field that was crowded with 19 candidates. As with most municipalities of New Jersey, Jersey City elections are non-partisan. Although Schundler did not claim to be a Republican in his advertisements or campaign literature however, he was widely believed as a Republican due to his campaign to his seat in the State Senate a year earlier and is thought to be one of the very first Republican to hold the office since 1917. The reason for his success to his victory was the fact that 2 African American candidates split the Black vote as well as Two siblings (Lou as well as Allen Manzo), also divided a significant number of votes.

Once in office, Schundler developed a reputation as a politician who could not be “bought off.” This strongly resonated in a city with a long legacy of corruption dating to the Frank Hague era. He subsequently won a full term in 1993 with 69% of the vote—the largest margin of victory since Jersey City returned to the Mayor-Council form of government in 1961, and according to some sources, in the city’s entire history. He won a second full term in 1997, winning a run-off election by a substantial margin.

After winning the primary, Schundler tried to reunite the party by reaching out to the figures who had endorsed Franks. This included having a unity lunch with Franks which was hosted by former governor Tom Kean, and retaining State Senator Joseph M. Kyrillos as state party chairman. Kyrillos had been appointed by DiFrancesco as state party chairman six weeks before the primary, and he had supported Franks in the primary. However, the party remained split. The Democratic candidate, Woodbridge Township Mayor Jim McGreevey (the unsuccessful Democratic candidate in 1997), exploited this division by painting Schundler as too conservative for New Jersey. Schundler made frequent campaign appearances on the late Bob Grant’s radio show to help bring voters out on election day. Schudler travelled to Israel as part of campaign to court the Jewish vote, and while there, the historic September 11 attack on the World Trade Center happened. The attack caused most air traffic in the US to be shut down for weeks, leaving Shundler stranded in Israel less than a month before the election. In the November election, Schundler was badly defeated, gaining 42% of the vote to McGreevey’s 56%. Schundler even lost Hudson County by 50,000 votes.

After he graduated from college, Schundler worked for Democratic Congressman Roy Dyson of Maryland. Later, he worked with Gary Hart’s presidential campaign in 1984. After Hart was defeated in the primary, Schundler began his career as a finance professional in the sales department at Salomon Brothers. Although he was not an expert in finance however, the person who interviewed him believed that anyone who was able to sell Hart in the western part of Iowa could have a career in finance. After 1987, Hart relocated to a different company, C. J. Lawrence and was later acquired by Deutsche Bank, where he was very successful financially. He retired in 1990 and after traveling the globe for a year, changed his voter registration to a Republican. He later admitted that he felt that the Democrats were enslaved by certain interests.

Bret Schundler Net Worth

Bret Schundler is one of the richest Politician from Uruguay. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Bret Schundler 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Schundler was the subject of a lot of national attention due to his role as the Republican mayor of a largely Democratic city. In his time, Jersey City remained a Democratic stronghold, just as the city has been more than 100 years. In fact, on the exact day as Schundler’s special elections victory, Bill Clinton carried Hudson County (which includes Jersey City) by an massive margin. It was enough to propel New Jersey into the Democratic column for the first time since 1964. Clinton won Hudson County by an even more substantial percentage in the year 1996. In addition there is no Republican has been a representative of a large part of Jersey City in Congress in over a century. Schundler was replaced by an incumbent Democrat, Glenn Cunningham, in 2001.

Schundler was born living in Woodbridge Township and Westfield, New Jersey as the youngest of nine children. In Westfield High School, he was an All-State footballer. He was enlisted to Harvard University, where, to help pay his education the student cleaned bathrooms, washed dishes and served as security guard. He graduated with high honors in 1981. His ethnic background is German as well as Barbadian.

Schundler was the mayor of Jersey City from 1992 until 2001. Schundler was the city’s first Republican mayor since 1917. Earlier in his life, Schundler was a Democrat and was the State Coordinator in New Jersey for Gary Hart’s 1984 campaign for President. He was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for Governor of New Jersey in 2001, and tried again for the same post in 2005, but failed to secure the Republican nomination. He then served as the chief operating officer of The King’s College, a Christian liberal arts college in New York City.

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Schundler’s 2005 gubernatorial campaign focused on the issue of property taxes. He proposed a series of state constitutional amendments to control state and local spending in New Jersey, with the savings dedicated to property tax reduction statewide.

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Bret Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Uruguay. Bret Schundler celebrates birthday on January 14 of every year.

On August 14, 2008 Schundler confirmed in a news interview his intent to run for the office of Mayor of Jersey City in the 2009 election. Schundler stated that his formal announcement would happen after the 2008 presidential election. He would have faced Mayor Jerramiah Healy, former Assemblyman Louis Manzo and community activist Dan Levin for the mayor’s office. State Sen. Sandra Bolden Cunningham, the widow of Schundler’s successor as mayor, was considering a race for mayor. Councilman Steven Fulop announced that he would not run for mayor in 2009. On January 12, 2009, Bret Schundler dropped his bid for mayor citing financial difficulties due in part to the ongoing financial meltdown on Wall Street.