Herb Conaway

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American politician (born 1963)

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Field	Value
name	Herb Conaway
image	Representative_Herb_Conaway_Official_Portrait.jpg
caption	Official portrait, 2024
alt	Official House portrait of Conaway smiling with his arms crossed in front of the U.S. flag, wearing a checkered blue jacket with an Air Force lapel pin, white shirt, and floral blue tie.
state	New Jersey
district
term_start	January 3, 2025
predecessor	Andy Kim
state_assembly1	New Jersey
district1	7th
term_start1	January 13, 1998
term_end1	January 1, 2025
predecessor1	Diane Allen
successor1	Balvir Singh
birth_name	Herbert Clark Hoover Conaway Jr.
birth_date
birth_place	Trenton, New Jersey, U.S.
party	Democratic
education
branch	United States Air Force
serviceyears	1992–1996
rank	Captain
website

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Herbert Clark Hoover Conaway Jr. (born January 30, 1963) is an American politician, physician, and former Air Force officer currently serving as the U.S. representative from New Jersey's 3rd congressional district since 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1998 to 2025, where he represented the 7th legislative district.

Conaway served in the Assembly as the Majority Whip from 2014 to 2017, and was the Deputy Speaker from 2002 to 2005 and again starting in 2022. He won New Jersey's 3rd district in the 2024 U.S. House of Representatives election, where he ran as the Democratic nominee.

Early life

Conaway was born at St. Francis Medical Center in Trenton on January 30, 1963, to Eva Christine Conaway (née Godard), a nurse at the hospital, and Herb Conaway Sr., a history teacher at Bordentown Regional High School. He grew up in Bordentown, attending high school there. Conaway graduated with an Bachelor of Arts in politics from Princeton University in 1985 after completing a 67-page long senior thesis titled "Black Political Strategy." He then received a Doctor of Medicine degree from Jefferson Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University and was awarded a Juris Doctor from Rutgers School of Law—Newark. He is the only member of the legislature to hold both an M.D. degree and a J.D. degree.

Conaway served in the United States Air Force Medical Corps from 1992 to 1996, reaching the rank of Captain. He served at McGuire Air Force Base in Burlington County as general medical officer and as assistant director of the primary care clinic. He continues to practice medicine whilst serving in the legislature. He specializes in internal medicine and currently serves as director of the internal medicine clinic at St. Francis Medical Center in Trenton. He formerly worked at Cooper University Hospital and had a practice in Willingboro. Formerly a resident of Delanco Township, he now lives in Moorestown.

New Jersey General Assembly

Conaway was first elected to the General Assembly from the 7th District in 1997 as the top vote getter. The same election saw his running mate and second-place finisher, Jack Conners, be seated then removed due to voting machine issues and replaced in September 1998 by Republican Kenneth William Faulkner. Conners was subsequently elected in a 1998 special election and the two served together from the 7th district from that point until 2011 when Conners resigned. Since late 2011, his Assembly associate from the district was Troy Singleton, until Singleton was elected to the New Jersey Senate. Since 2018, his Assembly associate has been Carol A. Murphy. He served as the Assembly's Deputy Speaker from 2002 to 2005.

Calling the proposed bill a "recipe for disaster" that could result in the spread of disease, Conaway opposed legislation proposed by Assemblywoman Charlotte Vandervalk that would give parents the right to exclude their children from mandatory vaccinations, after hearings held in March 2011 by the Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee. In 2019, Conaway supported legislation eliminating religious exemptions from mandatory vaccination requirements for students to be eligible to attend school.

Committee assignments

Committee assignments for the current session are:

Health, Chair
Budget
Military and Veterans' Affairs

District 7

Each of the 40 districts in the New Jersey Legislature has one representative in the New Jersey Senate and two members in the New Jersey General Assembly. The representatives from the 7th District for the 2024—2025 Legislative Session are:

Senator Troy Singleton (D)
Assemblyman Herb Conaway (D)
Assemblywoman Carol A. Murphy (D)

U.S. House of Representatives

Conaway ran for the United States House of Representatives for New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the 2004 election, losing to Republican Jim Saxton Conaway considered another run for the 3rd district in the 2024 election after incumbent Democrat Andy Kim decided to run for Senate, before officially deciding to enter in December 2023 after winning re-election. Conaway became the Democratic candidate to succeed Kim in the 2024 U.S. House of Representatives election after defeating his legislative district-mate, Carol A. Murphy, in a primary in June.

Committee assignments

For the 119th Congress:

Caucus membership

Electoral history

Congress

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Assembly

|title = New Jersey general election, 2021}} | party = Democratic Party (United States) | candidate = Herb Conaway | votes = 45,728 | percentage = 30.98% | party = Democratic Party (United States) | candidate = Carol Murphy | votes = 45,170 | percentage = 30.60% | party = Republican Party (United States) | candidate = Douglas Dillon | votes = 28,579 | percentage = 19.36% | party = Republican Party (United States) | candidate = Joseph Jesuele | votes = 28,139 | percentage = 19.06% | votes = 147,616 | percentage = 100.0

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