Burlington, New Jersey was incorporated on December 21, 1784. It is governed within the Faulkner Act (formally known as the Optional Municipal Charter Law) under the Mayor-Council form of municipal government (Plan 4), implemented based on the recommendations of a Charter Study Commission as of January 1, 1992. The governing body consists of a mayor and a seven-member Common Council, all elected on a partisan basis in a vote held as part of the November general election. [1] The Mayor serves a four-year term of office. The Common Council consists of seven members, each serving four-year terms of office: three at-large Councilpersons representing the entire City and one representing each of the four voting wards, with the at||large and mayoral seats up for election as a group and the ward seats up for vote two years later. [2] The term for mayor runs from January 1 to December 31.
Mayors are as follows: [3] [4]
Mayor | Term start | Term end | Notes |
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Bowes Reed | 1785 | 1794 | Burlington, New Jersey was incorporated on December 21, 1784. Bowes Reed was the first Mayor of Burlington, New Jersey. (November 1740 – July 20, 1794) was a Revolutionary officer, politician, and public servant from New Jersey. He was the brother of Joseph Reed, a member of the Continental Congress and President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania (equivalent to Governor). |
Joseph Bloomfield | 1795 | 1800 | (October 18, 1753 –October 3, 1823) was the fourth Governor of New Jersey. The township of Bloomfield, New Jersey is named for him. |
James Sterling (mayor) | 1801 | 1806 | |
William Coxe, Jr. | 1807 | 1815 | (May 3, 1762 – February 25, 1831) was a pioneer pomologist and a U.S. Representative from New Jersey. |
Joseph McIlvaine | 1816 | 1823 | (October 2, 1769 –August 19, 1826) was a United States senator from New Jersey from 1823 until his death. |
William Griffith | 1824 | 1826 | (1766 – June 7, 1826) was a United States federal judge. |
John E. Harris | 1827 | 1833 | |
John Larzalere | 1834 | 1836 | |
Samuel W. Earl | 1837 | 1841 | |
William R. Allen | 1842 | 1850 | |
James Walter Wall | 1851 | 1854 | (May 26, 1820 –June 9, 1872) was a United States senator from New Jersey during the American Civil War. He was the son of U.S. Senator Garret Dorset Wall. |
Archibald W. Burns | 1855 | 1857 | |
William R. Allen | 1858 | 1862 | |
Henry H. Hollembaek | 1863 | 1866 | He died on November 5, 1896. He attended Thomas Jefferson University for his medical degree. |
Joseph L. Powell (mayor) | 1867 | 1869 | |
Henry Moffett | 1870 | 1872 | |
Joseph L. Powell (mayor) | 1873 | 1875 | |
Hamilton McDowell | 1876 | 1878 | |
George Rigg (mayor) | 1879 | 1882 | |
Albert H. Silpath | 1883 | 1891 | |
Joseph P. Woolman | 1892 | 1894 | |
William E. McNeal | 1895 | 1898 | |
Charles Y. Flanders | 1899 | 1903 | |
George A. Allinson | 1904 | 1907 | |
C. Taylor Rue | 1908 | 1909 | |
Charles P. Farner | 1910 | 1912 | |
Elsworth E. Mount | 1913 | 1921 | |
Thomas S. Mooney | 1922 | 1927 | |
... | 1928 | 1929 | |
Harold Voorhees Holmes | 1930 | 1934 | He was a Republican. He defeated George Gunn, the Democratic opponent. |
... | 1935 | 1949 | |
Richard P. Hughes | 1950 | ||
... | 1951 | ||
Anthony T. Greski | ? | 1966 | |
Herman Thomas Costello | 1967 | 1991 | |
... | 1992 | 1995 | |
Herman Thomas Costello | 1996 | 2007 | |
Darlene A. Scocca | 2007 | 2007 | |
James Fazzone | 2008 | 2015 | |
Barry W. Conaway | 2016 | 2023 | Barry W. Conaway is the current Mayor of Burlington, New Jersey. [5] |
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