Philip D. Kaltenbacher

Philip D. Kaltenbacher (born November 1937, Newark, New Jersey) is a Republican Party politician from Essex County, New Jersey.

Kaltenbacher was educated at the Newark Academy, Yale University, and Yale Law School. Returning to New Jersey in 1962, he settled in Millburn and joined the Newark law firm of Hannoch Weisman. He also entered local Republican politics by assisting New Jersey General Assembly candidate Irwin I. Kimmelman, a lawyer with his firm. After Kimmelman was elected to the Assembly in 1963, Kaltenbacher served as Kimmelman's legislative aide. [Felzenberg, Alvin S. [http://books.google.com/books?id=OAyaxyIyGQAC "Governor Tom Kean: From the New Jersey Statehouse to the 9-11 Commission"] , Rutgers University Press, 2006.]

Kaltenbacher was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly in 1967 and re-elected in 1969 and 1971. His running mate was Thomas H. Kean, who would become Governor of New Jersey. He was not a candidate for re-election to a fourth term in 1973 and was succeeded by Jane Burgio, who would later become New Jersey Secretary of State.

After Kean won the Republican gubernatorial primary in 1981, he named Kaltenbacher to serve as the Chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee. He held that post until 1984, when he became a Commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

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