Former New Jersey Gov. Jim Florio is pictured in his New Brunswick office in 1995. He served as governor from 1990 to 1994.
Former Gov. Jim Florio, a pugnacious Democrat whose landmark initiatives on gun control and the environment endured decades after angry New Jersey voters denied him a second term in the wake of his infamous tax increases, died Sunday.
The former amateur boxer and U.S. Navy officer, who served 15 years in Congress before becoming New Jersey’s 49th governor, was 85.
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