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Gov. Phil Murphy plans to undergo surgery March 4 to remove what is likely a cancerous tumor from his kidney, and his advisers say he aims to be back in public life a little over a week after that.

Murphy told his staff he will be as active and as public as possible until the day before his surgery,chief of staff George Helmy said Monday. Murphy plans to give his budget address Tuesday, host other budget-related events and deliver the keynotespeech at the Chamber of Commerce annual train ride event in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.He said he does not expect to undergo radiation or chemotherapy treatment.

In his first public appearance since revealing the diagnosis, Murphy reiterated the importance of health care access and his commitment to it.

"I want to get to that day where were not just saying its a right, not a privilege, but that everybody actually lives that," Murphy said on News 12during his regular call-in show, "Ask Governor Murphy."

Murphy plans togradually take up his gubernatorial duties in the days after his surgery, and expects to attend United State of Gun Safety forumin Newark on March 13, Helmy said.

Its an aggressive recovery time," Helmy said. The doctors feel that as long as the surgery goes well, and his recovery goes well, theres a likelihood he can go public at that time.

In the meantime, Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver will become acting governor for the two or three days that Murphy will be recovering in New York City. She will take over all Murphy's responsibilities, including signing bills into law, vetoing legislationor enacting executive orders. She has stepped in when Murphy was out of town for official delegation trips, vacations or attending events as head of the Democratic Governors Association.

This is the first time a lieutenant governor, a relatively recently created position, will fill in for a substantial amount of time when a New Jersey governor is undergoing a medical procedure.

Kim Guadagno, the state's firstlieutenant governor, who assumed the office in 2010, did not take over as acting governor when Gov. Chris Christieunderwent gastric band surgery inMay 2013.

Christie kept the 40-minute proceduresecret from everyone but his family, chief of staff and chief counsel. The public did not know until a New York Post reporter asked Christie a direct question about the surgery designed to help him lose weight.

"I was in charge," Christiesaid at the time. "It's like asking if I decide to take a nap on Saturday afternoon. It's nobody else's business. I would never have lied about it."

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Until Guadagno assumed the post 10 years ago,New Jersey was one of a handful of states that did not have a lieutenant governor.

Voters created the lieutenant governorposition in a state referendum in 2005after a string of acting governors stepped in over the course of a few years.

The governor's running mate would become acting governor when the governor is unable to serve, and would serve as the leader of a Cabinet department or administrative agency. Oliver is the commissioner of the Department of Community Affairs.Guadagno served as secretary of state.

Before2010, the Senate president would become acting governor, while also balancing his or her legislative duties.

After Gov. Christine Todd Whitman resigned in 2001 to become EPA administrator under President George W. Bush, fourmenstepped in during the year before Jim McGreevey was inaugurated governor in 2002.

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Republican Senate President Donald DiFrancesco became acting governor, but his Senate president term ended a few days before the governor's term ended. Attorney General John Farmer became acting governor for 90 minutes, until lawmakers elected a new Senate president.

Because Senate control was split between Democrats and Republicans, Republican John Bennett and Democrat Richard Codey were elected as co-presidents of the chamber. Bennett and Codey split the governor's term, each serving three days.The result: Five men held the governor's office over thecourse of eight days.

Codey once again became acting governor after McGreevey resigned in 2004.

Murphy and Christie are not the only New Jersey governors to undergo surgery while in office.

Whitman had a 90-minute procedure to remove a benign ovarian cyst, whileDiFrancesco became acting governor for the time she was in the operating room. Three months later, she had a procedure to repair her right rotator cuff. In 1998, she underwent an emergency appendectomy, and then broke her right leg while skiing in the Swiss Alps a year later. She got stitches on her lip and had a chipped bone in her finger after a mountain bike accident in Napa Valley in 2000.

McGreevey broke his left leg by falling off a 4-foot-high ridge on a Cape May beach in 2002.

Gov.Jon Corzine almost died in 2007 in a car accident in which he broke his left leg, sternum, collarbone, a dozen ribs and lower vertebra, and lost a significant amount of blood. He was hospitalized for 18 days.

Corzine was in the front seat and not wearing a seat belt when his state police driver swerved to avoid a car on the Garden State Parkway and hit a guardrail.

Ashley Balcerzak is a reporter in the New Jersey Statehouse.For unlimited access to her work coveringNew Jerseys legislature and political power structure,please subscribe or activate your digital account today.

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