Newark Mayor Cory Booker's father, Cary, died Thursday in Las
Vegas.  The elder Booker was 76 years old and recently suffered
a stroke, according to the Democrat's campaign. Cary Booker also
suffered from Parkinson's disease.  The death comes as Cory
Booker enters the final stretch of his campaign for the U.S.
Senate against Republican Steve Lonegan. Voters will go to the
polls Oct. 16 to elect a successor to the late Frank Lautenberg,
a Democrat.  The candidate canceled his campaign events for the
rest of the day. He had been scheduled to attend a rally with
state Sen. Barbara Buono, who is running for New Jersey
governor.  Cary and Carolyn Booker, the mayor's parents, were
among the first black executives at IBM in the 1960s and active
in the civil rights movement.  For a time they lived in
Washington, where youngest son Cory was born. The Bookers moved
the family (the mayor has an older brother named Cary) to the
predominantly white suburb of Harrington Park in Bergen County.
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