Martin E. Kravarik (January 20, 1936 – April 4, 2018) was an American politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from District 7B from 1970 to 1972. Born in

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, Kravarik grew up in Irvington, New Jersey and attended Irvington High School and

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.Lawrence, Matthew
Interview with Martin E. Kravarik

Oral History Archives, October 31, 2007 Accessed January 8, 2021. "My dad bought, from a widow, a house on Coolidge Street in Irvington, twenty-five by a hundred foot lot, two stories, for five thousand dollars. He assumed the mortgage, and so we moved there.... Then, I went to Irvington High School. Why Rutgers? Because it was close and because I knew of it." He was a pilot in the

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and graduated from Seton Hall University School of Law. A longtime resident of the Kendall Park neighborhood of

South Brunswick, New Jersey South Brunswick is a township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. The township is centrally located within the Raritan Valley region and is an outer-ring suburb of New York City in the New York metropolitan area. As of th2020 Unit ...

, Kravarik died on April 4, 2018, in

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at age 82.

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