New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, right, sits with former Governors Brendan Byrne, left, and Thomas H. Kean, Sr., at the opening of a new prisoner re-entry center in Sept. 2014, in Jersey City, N.J ...

FILE — Brendan Byrne, the former governor of New Jersey, at his home office in Roseland, N.J., May 4, 2005. Byrne, a two-term Democrat who often antagonized his own party and passed the state ...

WOODLAND PARK, N.J. — Former New Jersey governor Brendan Byrne died Thursday at the age of 93.. Byrne, a Democrat, died at a home in Livingston, his son Tom Byrne said. He suffered an infection ...

A New Jersey governor who mobsters said was too ethical to be bribed and who authorized the law permitting gambling in Atlantic City has died. Brendan Byrne was 93. His son Tom Byrne says he died ...

Former Gov. Brendan T. Byrne, who left an enduring legacy in New Jersey that ranged from enacting the state's first income tax and the legalization of casino gambling to the development of the ...