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After the war he studied at Fordham University Law School, receiving a Juris Doctor degree in 1957.
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James Dugan
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Dugan served in the Korean War as a captain in the United States Marine Corps. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1957 and the New Jersey Bar in 1959. Dugan was elected to the State Senate in 1969, serving for eight years.
In 1973 he was named chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Also in that year he was selected as chairman of the New Jersey Democratic State Committee and helped nominate Brendan Byrne for Governor of New Jersey, though he would later become a critic of Byrne. Dugan stepped down from the party chairmanship in 1977 and also lost his Senate seat that year in a primary challenge.
Dugan joined the New Jersey law firm Waters, McPherson, McNeill in 1994. He has resided in Bayonne and Saddle River.
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