Jack M. Ciattarelli (12 December 1961-) was a Republican member of the Somerset County Board of Chosen Freeholders from 1 January 2007 to 23 November 2011 (succeeding Ken Scherer and preceding Mark Caliguire) and a member of the New Jersey General Assembly from the 16th district from 5 December 2011 to 9 January 2018 (succeeding Peter J. Biondi and preceding Roy Freiman).
Biography[]
Jack M. Ciattarelli was born in Somerville, Somerset County, New Jersey in 1961, and he was raised in Raritan. Ciattarelli served on the Raritan Borough Council from 1990 to 1995, on the Board of Chosen Freeholders from 2007 to 2011, and in the General Assembly from 2011 to 2018; he ran for Governor in 2017, but he lost to Kim Guadagno in the Republican primary. Ciattarelli once again ran for Governor in 2021, challenging the Democratic incumbent Phil Murphy; on 8 June 2021, he won the party primary, despite his moderate views coming under attack from the Trumpist Hirsh Singh. He narrowly lost the 2 November 2021 general election to Murphy by a margin of 50.4% to 48.8% in the first New Jersey gubernatorial election in which the incumbent President's party won the governorship of New Jersey since 1985, and the first occasion in which a Democrat won re-election as Governor of New Jersey since Brendan Byrne in 1977.