Richard Codey, president of the New Jersey Senate since 2002, has a unique leadership biography: a legislator, the Senate leader and, at times, governor--all simultaneously.

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Richard Codey, president of the New Jersey Senate since 2002, has a unique leadership biography: a legislator, the Senate leader and, at times, governor--all simultaneously. Because New Jersey does not have a lieutenant governor (that will change in 2010), Codey, as Senate president, stepped in as the 53rd governor for two years, while still running the Senate, when James McGreevy resigned in disgrace in November 2004. He became acting governor again for a month in 2007 when Governor Jon Corzine was hospitalized after a car accident. Now his hold on leadership is being challenged by Senate Majority Leader Stephen Sweeney, who says he...