Bill Pascrell of the 6th Ward was 16 when his uncle took him to a meeting of the Paterson Democratic Party. Someone threw a chair at that event.

"I thought to myself, 'This is interesting,'" recalled Pascrell earlier today in his downtown district office.

Pascrell won his first race in 1987 and would serve five terms in the Assembly, his legislative career overlapping into local elected office when he ran for mayor in 1990.

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