Noel Gross' house

Noel Gross is the widow of Nelson Gross, a politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly and as Chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee. He was the 1970 Republican Nominee for the U.S. Senate seat, which he lost in the general election. His political career ended in 1974 when he was convicted on federal charges involving the 1969 campaign of Governor William T. Cahill. After his prison term he went on to a lucrative business career as a real estate developer and restaurateur, before being kidnapped and murdered in September 1997.

Noel remained active after his conviction, serving a member of the United States delegation to the United Nations during the Reagan administration, and she later served on the Republican National Committee. She is a long-serving commissioner and former chairwoman of the New Jersey Racing Commission.