Recently Defeated New Jersey Congressman Dies 9.61K Jim Newell 04/04/11 04:01PM Filed to: rip rip Deaths John Adler Congress New Jersey House Appic Tweetg Former Rep. John Adler of New Jersey, a one-term Democratic congressman who lost his seat last November, has died. Adler, who was 51, had undergone emergency heart surgery last month for staph bacterial endocarditis.