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The New Jersey legislature consists of a senate of 40 members and an assembly of 80 members. The governor serves a four-year term and may be reelected once. Republican Christine Todd Whitman, elected governor in 1993, was reelected in 1997. After she was appointed by President George W. Bush to head the Environmental Protection Agency, Donald T. DiFrancesco, president of the state senate, became acting governor; in 2001, Democrat James E. McGreevey was elected to the office. New Jersey sends 13 representatives and 2 senators to the U.S. Congress and has 15 electoral votes.
New Jersey's two best-known institutions of higher learning were established in the 18th cent. : Princeton Univ., at Princeton, as the College of New Jersey in 1746; and Rutgers Univ., mainly at New Brunswick, as Queen's College in 1766. Among other New Jersey educational institutions are Fairleigh Dickinson Univ., with three campuses; Seton Hall Univ., mainly at South Orange; Stevens Institute of Technology, at Hoboken; and a number of state colleges. The Institute for Advanced Study, at Princeton, is one of the leading research centers of the country.
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