LECTURER, HISTORIAN, COLUMINIST AND AUTHOR - Dominick Mazzagetti

• LINCOLN'S ADDRESS IN TRENTON, FORMERLY HUNTERDON COUNTY, NJ
  Celebrate Lincoln's Birthday with historian, columnist and author Dominick Mazzagetti as he details Lincoln's famous train stop on his way to his inaugeration. Why a discussion about an event that happened in Trenton? Because Trenton was originally in Hunterdon County.
  Main Branch of the County Library, County Complex, 314 Route 12, Flemington.
  February 12, 2014
• TRUE JERSEY BLUES: ARMY ENLISTMENT IN 1862
  The story of the soldiers who were enlisted from the grounds where the old Flemington Fair and Race Track once were.  With historian and author of the book by the same title, Dominick Mazzagetti.
  Refreshments follow.
  North Branch County Library, 65 Halstead Street, Clinton
  July 22, 2014

Dominick Mazzagetti, now retired, is an attorney and a banker. Most recently, he served as President/CEO of RomAsia Bank, a community bank organized in 2009 to provide financial services to the Asian-American communities in central New Jersey. 

In 2004 Mr. Mazzagetti began a bi-weekly column in the Hunterdon County Democrat on Hunterdon County history.  This column discussed the social and cultural, political and military history of the County and its residents from the earliest colonial times to the present.  Topics included the Royal Governors of the Province; the participation of County residents in the Revolutionary War, the Civil War and World War I; early industries in the County; the rise of the railroads, the building of the Delaware & Raritan Canal and the introduction of the automobile; the history and funding of education in the County and the State; and, the customs and activities of the people who originally settled the County and the thousands who immigrated into the County over its history. 

Mr. Mazzagetti’s Hunterdon County Democrat column concluded in 2011, but articles on the Civil War led to the publication in 2011 of True Jersey Blues: The Civil War Correspondence of Lucien A. Voorhees and William Mackenzie Thompson (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press).  In 2013 Rutgers University Presspublished his biography of Charles Lee, the Revolutionary War general second in command to George Washington, Charles Lee, Self Before Country.

Mr. Mazzagetti is a graduate of Rutgers University and the Cornell Law School.  He began his law career as Law Secretary to the Joseph Weintraub, the Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.  As a practicing attorney, he represented numerous commercial banks and savings banks specializing in regulatory issues, licensing, examination, and new charters.   Additional clients included the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority and the New Jersey Turnpike Authority on contract and purchasing issues.  While in practice, Mr. Mazzagetti authored the treatise, Structuring Mortgage Banking Transactions, for banking publisher Warren Gorham and Lamont.

Between 1982 and 1985 Mr. Mazzagetti served as New Jersey’s Deputy and Acting Commissioner of Banking in the administration of Governor Thomas Kean.  At the Department of Banking Mr. Mazzagetti’s responsibilities included leading the Consumer Complaints, Regulatory and Economic Research Division of the Department, processing branch and charter applications, and serving as the hearing officer for all such applications.  Mr. Mazzagetti left the Department of Banking to join Cenlar Federal Savings Bank in Princeton, NJ, where he served   as General Counsel and then Executive VP and Chief Operating Officer.  In 1999 he was brought into New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Company to complete the chartering process for NJM Bank, a de novo federal savings bank and served as President of the Bank through April 2004. 

Mr. Mazzagetti has also been active in community affairs.  He served as Committeeman and Mayor of Raritan Township (Hunterdon County); as a member of the Planning Board and Parks & Recreation Committee; as a member of the Hunterdon County Cultural and Heritage Commission; and, as a member of the Hunterdon County Board of Mental Health.  He served for many years on the Board of Directors of the Martin House Community Justice Foundation (Trenton, NJ) and the Board of Directors of Boheme OperaNJ, based in Hamilton Township, NJ.