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 NEWARK — Cary Booker, the father of Newark Mayor Cory Booker, died Thursday after a long bout with Parkinson’s disease, the mayor’s Senate campaign said. He was 76. 
  
 Cary Booker recently suffered a stroke and died in Las Vegas, where he was living with his wife, Carolyn, the campaign said. 
  
 “Cary A. Booker was born on December 10, 1936, and moved to New Jersey in 1969. He spent most of his professional career at IBM and was happily married to Carolyn Booker for 49 years,” city spokesman James Allen said in a statement. “Mayor Booker’s father was an inspiration to him and someone the mayor has often credited with being a principal reason for him entering public service.” 
  
 The mayor, who is running for a vacant U.S. Senate seat against Republican Steve Lonegan, could not be reached for comment. His staff said he has suspended all campaign events. 
  
 A North Carolina native, Cary Booker has figured prominently in his son’s personal narrative and was often mentioned in the mayor’s speeches and stories. 
  
 When Cary Booker and his wife moved to Harrington Park, in Bergen County, to raise their family, they faced discrimination in the predominantly white community, Mayor Booker has often said. 
  
 One real estate agent who refused to sell the family a home let a dog loose on Cary Booker when he visited the man’s office with a lawyer, the mayor recalled in a recent speech at Stanford University, his alma mater. 
  
 “He sicks a dog on my dad,” Booker said in the speech. “Now, the size of the dog has changed over the years. My father now insists it was spawn from Hell, it was Cujo. My mom will whisper to me, ‘It was just Toto.’” 
  
 Booker also routinely cites advice his father gave him through the years. 
  
 “He would say to me, ‘Boy, don’t you dare walk around this house like you hit a triple, when you were born on third base!’” Booker said during the same speech at Stanford. 
  
 Cary Booker’s health had been deteriorating in recent years and the mayor had said he had hoped to move his parents to Newark so he could be closer to them. 
  
 Cary Booker was raised by a single mother and her large extended family in Hendersonville, N.C. After high school, the whole town — his mother, her church, her friends and neighbors collected money so he could attend North Carolina College. 
  
 He helped pay his $600 per year tuition by shining shoes, working construction jobs and washing dishes. 
  
 He met his future wife in Washington, D.C., where they both were among the first black executives at IBM. The couple moved to New Jersey in 1969 and were both active in the Civil Rights movement. 
  
 After Cory, their second son, was born, Cary Booker got promoted to the New York office of IBM and Carolyn got a job in White Plains, N.Y. 
  
 “At that time, we could afford Harrington Park,” Cary Booker told The Star-Ledger in 2000. “I’m surprised when people say it’s upscale. We moved there because it was cheap.” 
  
 In addition to his wife and son, Cary Booker is survived by two other sons, John Taylor and Cary Booker II. ||||| Newark Mayor Cory Booker (Photo: A.F. Menezes, The Bridgewater (N.J.) Courier News) Story Highlights Cary Booker, 76, recently suffered a stroke 
  
 The mayor's father and mother were among the first black executives at IBM in the 1960s 
  
 Cory Booker, who is running for the U.S. Senate in New Jersey, canceled campaign events 
  
 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. Cory Booker's campaign website says housing rights activists helped his parents buy their first home after they were initially turned down because of the color of their skin. 
  
 Cary Booker was raised by a single mother in North Carolina. A statement from city of Newark spokesman James Allen said Mayor Booker's father "was an inspiration to him and someone the mayor has often credited with being a principal reason for him entering public service." 
  
 As a child, the mayor told The Star-Ledger in Newark that he listened to tapes of speeches by Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy that his dad had made. At the 50th anniversary of King's March on Washington this summer, Booker recounted what his father used to say to him about the struggles of African Americans. 
  
 "My father when I was growing up said it very simply," Booker said. "He used to look at me and say, 'Boy, don't you dare walk around here like you hit a triple, 'cause you were born on third base. You are enjoying freedoms, opportunity, technology, things that were given to you bought by the struggle and the sacrifices and the work of those who came before. ... Don't forget where you come from." 
  
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Cory Booker has to temporarily put the brakes on his campaign for a Senate seat in New Jersey just six days before the special election. His father, Cary Booker, has died after suffering a stroke in Las Vegas, reports USA Today. The elder Booker also had Parkinson's disease. Cary Booker was a strong force in his own right, becoming one of the first black executives at IBM. His son frequently mentioned him in speeches and stories, notes the Star-Ledger. One of those stories recounted how the Newark mayor's parents faced discrimination from a white realtor who didn't want to sell the black couple a home in Bergen County years ago. When Cary Booker returned to the office with a lawyer, the realtor got angry. "He sics a dog on my dad," Booker said recently at Stanford. "Now, the size of the dog has changed over the years. My father now insists it was spawn from Hell, it was Cujo. My mom will whisper to me it was just Toto ..." Booker faces Republican Steve Lonegan in the Oct. 16 election.