Question: What county in New Jersey was Blondie Purcell born in?

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Paul DiGaetano: Paul DiGaetano (born October 28, 1953) is the current Bergen County Republican Organization Chairman.  DiGaetano also served in the New Jersey General Assembly representing the 36th legislative district from 1992 – 2006 and from 1986 – 1987.  DiGaetano also served as a member of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commission, the Legislative Service Commission and the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology.  DiGaetano originally represented Passaic, New Jersey, but moved to Nutley, New Jersey following his 1999 re-election (DiGaetano believed that, when the new legislative districts would be redrawn following the 2000 U.S. Census, Passaic would be split from District 36 and he wanted to ensure that he would keep his seat if it came to that).  He served with John Kelly of Nutley for many years in the Assembly, but for his last two terms in office he served as part of a split ticket; Wood-Ridge, New Jersey mayor Paul Sarlo was elected to Kelly's seat in 2001 and after Sarlo moved to the State Senate Frederick Scalera of Nutley was elected in 2003 to replace him.

Reinhardt V. Metzger: Reinhardt Voorhees Metzger (April 12, 1898- 1975) was an American Republican Party politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly and an Independent candidate for Governor of New Jersey in 1961.  He won a Special Election for the New Jersey General Assembly in 1953 to replace William F. Tompkins, who had resigned to become U.S. Attorney for New Jersey.  He was elected to a full term in 1953 representing Essex County, but was not a candidate for re-election in 1955.  He left the Republican Party in 1961 to run as a Conservative candidate for Governor.  He received 5,820 votes (0.27%) of the vote.  He later served as President of the New Jersey Conservative Club.  In a speech to the Central New Jersey Conference of Conservatives in 1962, Metzger said: "You will have to decide which is more important, your party tag or your principles -- your party label or your freedom and principles of life and government."  Metzger urged conservatives not to vote for Republican candidates that failed to adhere to conservative principles, but instead write in the names of a better candidate.  Metzger was born in Philadelphia.  He was married to Agnes Kearney Lake (1907-1960) from 1933 until her death in 1960.

James Linn: James Linn (1749 – January 5, 1821) was a United States Representative from New Jersey.  Born in Bedminster Township, he pursued preparatory studies and graduated from Princeton College in 1769.  He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1772 and commenced practice in Trenton.  He returned to Somerset County and was judge of the Court of Common Pleas; he was a member of the Provincial Congress of New Jersey in 1776.  During the Revolutionary War he served as captain in the Somerset County Militia in 1776, and first major from 1776 to 1781.  He was a member of the New Jersey Legislative Council (now the New Jersey Senate) in 1777, and returned to Trenton; he served in the New Jersey General Assembly in 1790 and 1791, and from 1793 to 1797 was again a member of the State Council serving as Vice-President of Council in 1796-97.

Thomas H. Hughes: Thomas Hurst Hughes (January 10, 1769 – November 10, 1839) was a U.S. Representative from New Jersey; born in the Cold Spring section of Lower Township, Cape May County, New Jersey, January 10, 1769; attended the public schools; moved to Cape May City in 1800 and engaged in the mercantile business; in 1816 he built Congress Hall, a hotel which he conducted for many summer seasons; sheriff of Cape May County 1801–1804; member of the New Jersey General Assembly from 1805 to 1807, 1809, 1812, and 1813, and a member of the New Jersey Legislative Council (now the New Jersey Senate) from 1819 to 1823 and in 1824 and 1825; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian candidate to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses, serving in office from March 4, 1829 to March 3, 1833); was not a candidate for renomination in 1832; resumed the hotel business; died in Cold Spring, N.J., November 10, 1839; interment in Cold Spring Presbyterian Church.

John Fell (judge): John Fell (1721–1798) was an American merchant and jurist.  Born in New York City, he was engaged in overseas trade and had acquired a small fleet of ships by the time he moved to Bergen County, New Jersey, in the 1760s, and lived at "Peterfield", a home in present-day Allendale, New Jersey that has become known as the "John Fell House".  He served as judge of the court of common pleas in Bergen County from 1766 to 1774.  With the coming of the American Revolutionary War, he became chairman of Bergen County's committee of correspondence and the committee of safety.  He was Bergen County's leading delegate to the Provincial Congress of New Jersey in 1775.  In 1776 Fell was elected to a one-year term in the New Jersey Legislative Council representing Bergen County.

William E. Purcell: William Edward Purcell (August 3, 1856November 23, 1928) was a United States Senator from North Dakota.  Born in Flemington, New Jersey, he attended the common schools, studied law, and was admitted to the bar of New Jersey in 1880, commencing practice in Flemington.  He moved to Wahpeton, Dakota Territory, in 1881 and continued the practice of law; in 1888 he was appointed by President Grover Cleveland as United States attorney for the Territory of Dakota.  He resigned in 1889, having been elected a member of the constitutional convention for the new State of North Dakota.  From 1889 to 1891 he was district attorney of Richland County, North Dakota and was a member of the North Dakota Senate from 1907 to 1909.

Paterson, New Jersey: Paterson is the largest city in and the county seat of Passaic County, New Jersey, United States.  As of the 2010 United States Census, its population was 146,199, rendering it New Jersey's third-most-populous city.  Paterson has the second-highest density of any U.S. city with over 100,000 people, behind only New York City.  For 2015, the Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program calculated a population of 147,754, an increase of 1.1% from the 2010 enumeration, ranking the city the 177th-largest in the nation.

Hedge Thompson: Hedge Thompson (January 28, 1780 - July 23, 1828), a Representative from New Jersey.  Thompson was born in Salem, New Jersey on January 28, 1780.  He graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1802 and practiced his profession in Salem; member of the New Jersey General Assembly in 1805; served in the New Jersey Legislative Council (now the New Jersey Senate) in 1819; appointed associate judge of Salem County, N.J., in 1815 and again in 1824; served as collector for Salem County from 1826 to 1828; elected to the Twentieth Congress and served from March 4, 1827, until his death in Salem, N.J., on July 23, 1828; interment in St. John's Protestant Episcopal Churchyard.

Blondie Purcell: William Aloysius "Blondie" Purcell (March 16, 1854 – February 20, 1912), was an American Major League Baseball player born in Paterson, New Jersey.  He played for a total of 12 seasons while playing for eight different teams in two leagues.  He appeared in 1097 games, mainly in the outfield, but did pitch in 79 games throughout his career, as well as other infield positions.

Daniel Garrison: Daniel Garrison, a Representative from New Jersey; born in Lower Penns Neck Township, New Jersey near Salem, New Jersey, on April 3, 1782.  He pursued an academic course and engaged in agricultural pursuits.  He was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly from 1806–1808, and was surrogate of Salem County, New Jersey from 1809-1823.

Supporting paragraphs: Blondie Purcell Paterson, New Jersey
Answer: Passaic County