Robert J. Burns (March 17, 1926 – March 14, 2016) was an American
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. He graduated from Seton Hall University receiving a B.S. in 1955. He also attended Seton Hall Law School for one year. During the 1960s and 70s, he was a sales representative for the Tube Sales Company in Cranbury however later in life, he was a sales manager at the David Smith Steel Company in
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in 1975, Burns and the other incumbent Democrat Paul Contillo were chosen in the June primary and narrowly won in the November general election. The two were reelected in 1977 by a slightly larger margin but were both defeated in 1979 by
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. Burns would make three more attempts at the Assembly: in 1981 where he lost in the general election, in 1983 where he won the Democratic primary but dropped out of the general election due to job commitments, and in 1993 where he lost the general election.
Burns was married to the former Eleanor Solinski and had four children. He died on March 14, 2016, three days before his 90th birthday.