Joseph Cryan
[5] The representatives from the 20th District for the 2024—2025 Legislative Session are:[6] Cryan was born on September 1, 1961, in East Orange and raised Roman Catholic.[8] The lawmaker's son, also named John Cryan, was convicted of brutally beating a motorist with a baseball bat while two accomplices punched and kicked the victim, after a case of road rage that occurred when his father was in the General Assembly.[9] Other relatives involved in public life are his cousin, Morristown Councilman John Cryan,[10] his sister, Union Township Municipal Clerk Eileen Birch, his cousin, Cranford, New Jersey township administrator Jamie Cryan,[11] his brother-in-law Superior Court judge Joseph Donohue.[12] The New York Post reported that Cryan "graphically spelled out his kinky proclivities in more than 150 e-mails that he sent to" a former lobbyist for Prudential Financial who pleaded guilty to stalking his girlfriend in exchange for being allowed to participate in a pre-trial intervention program.On February 17, 2006, Cryan was selected to be the head of the New Jersey Democratic State Committee, succeeding Bonnie Watson Coleman.