Editing Lafayette Township, New Jersey (section)

==Notable people==
{{Category see also|People from Lafayette Township, New Jersey}}
People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Lafayette Township include:

* [[Andy Albeck]] (1921–2010), movie executive who served as president and chief executive of [[United Artists]] and operated the award-winning Albeck Family Christmas Tree farm in Lafayette Township<ref>Staff. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-albeck-idUSTRE6930D020101004 "Former United Artists head Andy Albeck dies at 89"], [[Reuters]], October 3, 2010. Accessed May 1, 2015. "Albeck left UA in 1981 and, with his wife, Lotte, nurtured his passion for the outdoors as a Christmas tree farmer on 200 acres in Lafayette, N.J. The Albeck Family Christmas Tree farm won four grand championship titles at the Flemington Fair for their blue spruce trees from 1984-87."</ref>
* [[Cleve Backster]] (1924–2013), interrogation specialist for the [[Central Intelligence Agency]], best known for his 1960s experiments with plants using a [[polygraph]] which led to his theory of "[[Plant perception (paranormal)|primary perception]]" where he claimed that plants "feel pain" and have [[extrasensory perception]]<ref>Matté, James Allen. [https://books.google.com/books?id=4yThE6vChBAC&pg=PA39 ''Forensic Psychophysiology Using the Polygraph: Scientific Truth Verification''], p. 39. J.A.M. Publications, 1996. {{ISBN|9780965579407}}. "Cleve Backster, born Grover Cleveland Backster Jr., on 27 February 1924 at Lafayette, New Jersey, received an appointment on 12 April 1948 as Plans Officer at the newly formed Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) whose near total operation was headquartered at 2430 E. Street, N. W. in Washington D. C...."</ref>
* [[Bhikkhu Bodhi]] (born 1944), [[Theravada]] [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] [[Bhikkhu|monk]], ordained in [[Sri Lanka]], who was appointed the second president of the [[Buddhist Publication Society]]<ref>McLeod, Melvin, ed. [https://books.google.com/books?id=-bIFw6xJKM8C&pg=PT333 ''The Best Buddhist Writing 2008''], p. 333. [[Shambhala Publications]], 2008. {{ISBN|9781590306154}}. Accessed May 10, 2017. "Bhikkhu Bodhi, an American Buddhist monk, was ordained in Sri Lanka in 1972.... He currently lives at Bodhi Monastery in Lafayette, New Jersey."</ref>
* [[Andrew J. Rogers]] (1828–1900), lawyer, teacher, clerk, police commissioner and Democratic Party politician who represented [[New Jersey's 4th congressional district]] in the [[United States House of Representatives]] from 1863 to 1867<ref>[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000387 Rogers, Andrew Jackson, (1828 - 1900)], ''[[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]]''. Accessed May 1, 2015.</ref>
* [[Jay Nelson Tuck]] (1916–1985), [[journalist]], [[television critic]] who served as president of [[The Newspaper Guild]] from 1950 to 1952<ref>Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/25/nyregion/jay-nelson-tuck-69-a-reporter-and-editor.html "Jay Nelson Tuck, 69, A Reporter and Editor"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', November 25, 1985. Accessed May 1, 2015. "Jay Nelson Tuck, a journalist and former president of the Newspaper Guild of New York, died of lung cancer Friday at his home in Lafayette, N.J."</ref>