Bernard J. Dwyer

Bernard James Dwyer (January 24 1921 - October 31 1998) was an American Democratic Party politician. He served U.S. Representative from New Jersey.

Dwyer was born in in Perth Amboy, Middlesex County, New Jersey. A Roman Catholic, he attended public elementary and high schools. Dwyer attended Rutgers University-Newark, earning a business degree. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II from 1940 to 1945.

Dwyer's profession was that of an insurance broker. His political career began when he successfully ran for a set on the Edison, New Jersey Town Council, serving from 1958 to 1969. He was elected as mayor the city that year, serving one four-year term. Dwyer member of New Jersey Senate 18th District, from 1974 to 1980; He was elected on January 3, 1981 to the U.S. House of Representatives, and he served six terms until January 3, 1993. His district was numbered as the 15th during his first term, but after the 1980 Census, it was redrawn as the 6th District.

Dwyer served in Congress until his retirement in 1993. His papers of 1981 to 1992, are stored at the Rutgers University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, New Brunswick, New Jersey, include congressional office files consisting chiefly of documentation accumulated while he was a member of the Committee on Appropriations.

Dwyer died October 31, 1998 of a heart attack while driving his car in Metuchen, Middlesex County, New Jersey. He is buried at St. Gertrude's Cemetery, Colonia, New Jersey.