Jack Conners

Who is Jack Conners?

Jack Conners is an American Democratic Party politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly, where he represented the 7th Legislative District from 1998 until his resignation in 2011.

In the 1997 elections, Republican Diane Allen left the Assembly and ran for and won the Senate seat, while Democrats Herb Conaway and Conners were the winners in that year's Assembly race. After eight months in office, the courts threw out the results of the 1997 election due to problems with a voting machine that affected the results for the second seat. Conners was ordered to leave office in September 1998 and Republican Ken Faulkner was seated in his place. In A November 1998 special election, Conners defeated Faulkner and was sworn into office for a second time that year.

Conners served in the Assembly on the Military and Veterans' Affairs Committee, the Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee and the State Government Committee.

Conners has served on the Board of the Pennsauken High School Foundation, has been a board member of the Pennsauken Free Public Library and previously served as president of the Big Brothers / Big Sisters of Camden & Gloucester Counties. Conners served in the Delaware Army National Guard and the United States Army Reserve.