When Frank Hague Eggers was installed as mayor of Jersey City in 1947 by his predecessor and uncle, Frank Hague, Hague’s longtime political aide John V. Kenny was stunned. Believing that he should have been Hague’s successor, Kenny built a reform party to challenge Eggers for mayor in 1949. By uniting forces from the city’s varied ethnic groups and appealing to anti-Hague sentiments, Kenny won the race. Here we see a pro-Kenny rally in Journal Square, complete with a newsreel cameraman set up on the right.
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