DeForest Soaries

The Reverend DeForest Blake "Buster" Soaries, Jr. is an African-American Baptist minister, author and public advocate, from Montclair, New Jersey. He is the former Secretary of State of New Jersey and former chairman of the federal Election Assistance Commission. He was the senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset, New Jersey, a position he had held since November 1990 until his retirement from the church in June 2021.

20 August 1951

Born on the same birth date (20 August 1951): Greg Bear

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Born in the same month (August 1951): Akhmad Kadyrov • Bobby Caldwell • Dan Fogelberg • Danny Joe Brown • Glenn Hughes (musician) • Jimi Jamison • Joe Lynn Turner • John Deacon • Keiichi Suzuki • Mack Brown • Martin Brest • Oscar Hijuelos • Queen Noor of Jordan • Randall Garrison • Richard Hunt (puppeteer) • Samantha Sang