Background
Cryan, Joseph P. was born on September 1, 1961 in East Orange, New Jersey, United States. Son of John Cryan.
organization administrator State Legislator
Cryan, Joseph P. was born on September 1, 1961 in East Orange, New Jersey, United States. Son of John Cryan.
Bachelor in Business Administration, Belmont Abbey College, North Carolina, 1983.
He was the Majority Leader of the New Jersey General Assembly, serving from January 12, 2010 until January 10, 2012. Cryan served as the Assembly"s Deputy Majority Leader 2006-2010, and was Assistant Majority Leader from 2004 to 2005. He served on the Human Services Committee and the Law and Public Safety Committee.
Cryan has served on the New Jersey State Democratic Committee since 2002, as Vice Chair.
On February 17, 2006, Mr. Cryan was selected to be the head of the New Jersey Democratic State Committee, succeeding Bonnie Watson Coleman.
He stepped down after the selection of his successor John South. Wisniewski on January 27, 2010. In 1996, Cryan was elected as the Township of Union"s Democratic Municipal Chairman.
He is an Undersheriff with the Union County Sheriff" General’ s Office.
Cryan was born on September 1, 1961, in East Orange, the son of John Cryan, an immigrant to the United States from County Roscommon, Ireland, who would later be elected to the General Assembly and served as Sheriff of Essex County. Cryan graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Belmont Abbey College in Business Administration in 1983. Cryan was born in East Orange, and currently resides in Union Township.
The New York Post reported that Cryan "graphically spelled out his kinky proclivities in more than 150 e-mails that he sent to" a former lobbyist for Prudential Financial who pleaded guilty to stalking his girlfriend in exchange for being allowed to participate in a pre-trial intervention program
"The e-mails were written when the pol presumably would have been at one of his government jobs — either his $49,000-a-year Assembly gig or his $111,000-a-year post as Union County undersheriff," the Post said. As, in November 2009, Assemblyman Cryan presided over a Democratic gubernatorial party loss by incumbent Jon Corzine to Republican Chris Christie.
He was replaced as state chairman in January 2010 by Assemblyman John Wisniewski. Each of the forty 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 20th District for the 2010-2011 Legislative Session are:
Senator Raymond Lesniak
Assemblywoman Annette Quijano.
Quotations: "The e-mails were written when the pol presumably would have been at one of his government jobs — either his $49,000-a-year Assembly gig or his $111,000-a-year post as Union County undersheriff,".
Undersheriff Union County Sheriff' General’ s Office. Chairman Union County St. Patrick's Day Parade, 1997. Vice president Brain Borough, since 1999.
Member standard branch Cryan Civic Association, since 2000. Member ethics review board Union Township, 1993—1994, municipal chairman, since 1995. Member of Brian Boru Association (vice president), Irish American Society of Union (co-founder, first president), Knights of Columbus.
Children: John, Megan.