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Josephs' close calls

IN APRIL 1984, Babette Josephs defeated incumbent Samuel Rappaport by just 413 votes to win the Democratic primary for the state’s 182nd House district. She easily defeated her Republican challenger that November and, according to the Center for American Women and Politics, based out of Rutgers University, became one of only nine women in the 203-member state House.

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