New Brunswick, New Jersey
New Brunswick is a city (New Jersey), city in and the county seat, seat of government of Middlesex County, New Jersey, Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.New Brunswick High School in 1951.2012 Inductees New Brunswick High School. Accessed January 23, 2024. "Frank M. Pelly - '51 Served as Executive Director of the New Jersey Lottery Commission, New Jersey Assemblyman, Middlesex County Freeholder, Councilman, Deputy Mayor and Board of Education member of North Brunswick." Pelly graduated in 1956 from the University of Georgia in 1956 with a degree in pharmacy, and operated a pharmacy in New Brunswick. A resident of North Brunswick, New Jersey, Pelly served as a
board of education
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trustee on the North Brunswick Township Public Schools, on the township council and as a member of the Middlesex CountyBoard of Chosen Freeholders.Mautner, Lyn "New Jersey Q & A: Frank M. Pelly; The Man Behind Those Lottery Dreams" '' The New York Times'', April 26, 1992. Accessed January 23, 2024. "But in another innovation, Mr. Pelly has also seen to it that the hot-line number for the New Jersey Council on Compulsive Gambling (1-800-GAMBLER) is stamped on all lottery tickets sold, as well as on the 5,000 lottery machines in the state and on brochures and advertising materials.... Except for time away at the University of Georgia, Mr. Pelly has lived in the New Brunswick area all his life. He owned a pharmacy there, which he sold two years ago. He has served as a member of the Town Council of North Brunswick, as Deputy Mayor, as a Middlesex County Freeholder and as a member of the State Assembly."
In May 1991, Pelly was named by Governor
James Florio
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to serve as executive director of the New Jersey Lottery, after Pelly announced that he would not be seeking re-election; he succeeded acting lottery head Russell R. Hart, who took over when Barbara Marrow-Mooring stepped down. As head of the lottery, Pelly had a hotline number for compulsive gamblers printed on all lottery tickets. In May 1994, Governor
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nominated
Virginia E. Haines
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'', May 19, 1994. Accessed January 23, 2024, via Newspapers.com. "Virginia E. Haines, R-Ocean, has been tapped by Gov. Whitman to serve as the state's next lottery executive director, the governor's office announced yesterday.... Haines, a 47-year-old Shore-area native who won a second, two-year term to the Assembly in November, would replace Frank M. Pelly, a former Democratic assemblyman from Middlesex County."