Former N.J. Gov. Thomas Kean to give commencement speech at Eckerd College
Former GOP New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean will be speak at the Eckerd College Commencement on Sunday, May 17. Called “the courtly elder statesmen of New Jersey Republicanism,” by The Wall Street Journal, the 79-year-old Kean is perhaps best known nationally as being the co-chair (along with former Democratic U.S. Rep. Lee Hamilton) of the 9/11 Commission Report, published in 2003. Kean served as governor in New Jersey from 1982-90. Like one of his successors, Christine Whitman, Kean is associated with that dying…