 He ran on a ticket with Thomas Kean, who would later serve as Governor of New Jersey.He dropped his bid for re-election to a fourth term after the June 1973 primary to devote more time to his business, and was replaced on the ticket with Jane Burgio.After Kean won the Republican Gubernatorial Primary in 1981, he named Kaltenbacher to serve as the Chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee.