News From Trenton · January 18, 2023
Tom Carver, ex-Labor Commissioner, dies at 86
Thomas D. Carver, a onetime reporter for The (Bergen) Record who became New Jersey Commissioner of Labor under Gov. Richard J. Codey, died on January 10. He was 86.
Carver joined The Record in 1960, covering local news in Bergen County. He left the newspaper in 1962 to take a job as a community program assistant at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and attended law school at New York University at night.
He spent nearly 23 years at the Port Authority and was assistant general manager of Newark Liberty International Airport when he left the agency.
Carver became the president of the Casino Association of New Jersey in 1984. The group, which served as the lobbying arm of the legalized gambling industry, was comprised of all ten operating casinos in Atlantic City.
He left the association in 1994 to form The Carver Group, a business consulting firm, and later was a partner at The Castle Group, the lobbying arm of a North Jersey law firm. He also served as president of the New Jersey Aviation Association.
From NJ SEED: News From Trenton, SPECIAL EDITION - January 18, 2023.