Background
McGuckin was born in East Orange, New Jersey and raised in Brick Township, where his father John McGuckin was the town"s first directly elected mayor.
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Gregory McGuckin
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He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Providence College in 1983 and a Juris Doctor degree from Seton Hall University School of Law in 1987 (New Jersey Governor Chris Christie graduated the same year).
Career
He interned for United States. District Court judge John West. Bissell in 1986 and clerked for Judges of the New Jersey Superior Court in Ocean County in 1987–1988. McGuckin was elected to the Toms River Township Council in 2003 and was re-elected in 2005 and 2009. He was selected as Council President, serving from 2004 to 2011.
In 2011, James West. Holzapfel ran for the New Jersey Senate seat of the retiring Andrew R. Ciesla, and McGuckin ran for the open Assembly seat.
He and his running mate David West. Wolfe defeated the Democratic candidates Bette Wary and Eli Eytan, and he was sworn in on January 10, 2012. Each of the 40 districts in the New Jersey Legislature has one representative in the New Jersey Senate and two members in the New Jersey General Assembly.
The other representatives from the 10th District for the 2012–2013 Legislative Session are:
Senator James West. Holzapfel (R)
Assemblyman David West. Wolfe (R).
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