Legendary politician, fighter, friend. N.J. leaders remember Congressman Bill Pascrell.

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U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell died Wednesday at age 87. (Reena Rose Sibayan | The Jersey Journal)

New Jersey political leaders on both sides of paid tribute to U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., the scrappy congressman from Paterson who died Wednesday following a month-long illness.

Pascrell, 87, liked to boast that he’d never lost an election — not as mayor of his hometown Paterson, not as a state assemblyman, and not as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, in a seat he held since 1997.

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