Christopher J. Christie, a GOP candidate for governor of New Jersey, will speak at the Republican Association of Princeton’s Lincoln Bicentennial Dinner and Celebration on Feb. 20, at Jasna Polana, in Princeton.
Association president Linda Sipprelle said that Mr. Christie’s talk will precede remarks by biotech executive and Republican leader John Crowley.
Tickets for the event are $110 per person and can be purchased by phoning (609) 497-0740 or emailing [email protected].
From December 2001 until recently, Mr. Christie was the United States Attorney for New Jersey. He earned praise for securing convictions or guilty pleas for public corruption from more than 125 public officials, Republicans and Democrats, without losing a single case.
Before being appointed as U.S. Attorney, Mr. Christie was elected to serve on the Morris County, New Jersey, Board of Freeholders.
Mr. Christie was born in New Jersey in 1962. He graduated from the University of Delaware with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science in 1984 and from the Seton Hall University School of Law in 1987.
He then joined the law firm of Dughi, Hewit &Palatucii of Cranford, New Jersey and in 1993 was named a partner in the firm. Mr. Christie specialized in securities law, appellate practice, election law, and government affairs. Christie is a member of the American Bar Association and the New Jersey State Bar Association and was a member of the Election Law Committee of the New Jersey State Bar Association.
