Mayor of Englewood, New Jersey

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Englewood, New Jersey was incorporated on March 17, 1899. Beginning in 1980, Englewood switched from a Mayor-Council form of government to a modified Council-Manager plan of government in accordance with a Special Charter granted by the New Jersey Legislature. [1] [2] Under this charter, the mayor retains appointive and veto powers, while the council acts as a legislative and policy making body, with some power to appoint and confirm appointments. The City Council consists of five members, each elected for a three-year term. Four are elected from the individual wards in which they live and the other is elected by a citywide vote as an at-large member. The city is divided into four wards which are approximately equal in population. Administrative functions are responsibilities of the City Manager. The six seats in the governing body are elected in a three-year cycle as part of the November general election, with wards two and four both up together, followed a year later by wards one and three, and then the at-large council and mayoral seats. Each ward votes in two of the three years in the cycle, once for its ward seat, in the other year for the two positions voted at-large and one year with no election. The terms begin on January 1 of year after the November election. [3] [4]

Mayors

MayorTermNotes
Daniel A. Currie (1842–1911)1896He is claimed to be the first mayor of Englewood, New Jersey, but those before Elbert Adrain Brinckerhoff were declared void. [3]
Elbert Adrain Brinckerhoff (1838–1913)1899 to May 1901He resigned. He was the first legal mayor of Englewood, New Jersey. [3] [5] [6] He recommended an increase in the police force from seven police officers to nine, and the building of a city hall. [7]
J. C. Anderson 1901 May to 1901 DecemberAs acting mayor.
Daniel A. Currie (1842–1911)1902 to 1903
Dan Fellows Platt (1873–1937)1904 to 1905He died on 16 December 1937. [4] [8]
Donald Mackay 1906 to 1909 [4]
James A. C. Johnson (1867–1937)1910 to 1911 JanuaryHe resigned to join the New Jersey Senate. [9]
Hezekiah Birtwhistle (?–1911)1911 January to 1911 OctoberAs acting mayor. He died in office. [4]
William Conklin 1911 October to 1911 DecemberHe was the acting mayor.
Vernon Monroe 1912 to 1915 [4]
Clinton Hamlin Blake, Jr. (1883–?)1915 to 1917 [10]
David J. McKenna 1918 October to 1921 December [11]
Clarence Dillworth Kerr (?–1957)1922 to 1923 [12]
Colonel Harriot Van Devanter Moore (1879–1937)1924 to 1925 [13]
Douglas Gillespie Thomson, Sr. (1885–?)1926 to 1929He acted as an intermediary during the Lindbergh kidnapping with Arthur W. Springer. [14]
Cornelius Porter Kitchel (1875–1947)1930 to 1933 [15]
Irving S. Reeve 1934 to 1935
Charles B. Hayward (1877–1937)1936 to 1937 OctoberHe died in office. [16]
Robert Story Tipping (1887–?)1937 October to 1939He was born on 4 May 1887. [17]
Clarence Ambrose Clough (1883–?)1940 to 1941He married Ethel Kipp.
Charles William Floyd Coffin (1888–1968)1942 to 1945 [18]
Donald Aubrey Quarles (1894–1959)1946 to 1947 [19]
Melvin Leslie Denning (1895–1986)1948 to 1953He made the first long-distance call from coast to coast using the new direct distance dialing system. [20]
Watson Gerald Clark, Jr. 1954 to 1955 [21]
Albert Moskin (1900–1994)1956 to 1959 [22]
Austin Volk (1918–2010)1960 to 1963 [23] [24]
Francis J. Donovan (?–1965)1964 to 1965 AprilHe died in office.
William J. Ticknor 1965 April to 1966As acting mayor.
Austin Volk (1918–2010)1966 to 1967 [23] [24]
Robert I. Miller (?–2009)1968 to 1969
Ned Feldman 1970 to 1971
Walter Taylor 1972 to 1975First African-American mayor
Sondra J. Greenberg (1928–)1976 to 1982
Steven R. Rothman (1952–)1983 to 1988
Donald Aronson 1989 to 1997In 1991 Wilson Pickett was arrested for making threats to Aronson. [25]
Paul T. Fader (1959–2017)1998 to 2003
Michael Wildes (1964–)2004 to 2010
Frank Huttle III 2010 to 2018 [26]
Michael Wildes (1964–)2019–present

References

  1. ↑ 2012 New Jersey Legislative District Data Book, Rutgers University Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, March 2013, p. 157.
  2. ↑ City Charter, City of Englewood, backed up by the Internet Archive as of May 9, 2008. Accessed September 16, 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 "Mayors of the City of Englewood" (PDF). Englewood Library. Retrieved October 21, 2011.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Adaline Wheelock Sterling (1922). The Book of Englewood. Mayor of Englewood, New Jersey. p. 277.
  5. ↑ "Three Large Projects Nearing Completion for Occupancy Early This Fall". New York Times . September 25, 1938. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
  6. ↑ "Brinckerhoff, Bank President, Dies. Head of Merchants Bank. Rode the First Pony Express in This Country. Member of the Vigilance Committee In California Under Coleman in Pioneer Days". New York Times . March 24, 1913. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
  7. ↑ Adaline Wheelock Sterling (1922). The book of Englewood. Mayor of Englewood, New Jersey. p. 189.
  8. ↑ "Dan F. Platt, 65, Archaeologist; Former Mayor of Englewood, an Art Collector and Author, Dies at His Home. Served Princeton Board. Delegate to the Democratic Convention in 1912 Which Nominated Wilson. Author of Books. Entered Politics in 1900". New York Times . May 7, 1938. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
  9. ↑ "James A. Johnson, Ex-Legislator, 70. Served in New Jersey Senate From 1911 to 1913. Dies in Jamaica, B. W. I." New York Times . December 18, 1937. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
  10. ↑ "Mrs. Clinton H. Blake". New York Times . May 11, 1967. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
  11. ↑ "N. A. McKenna, Banker, is Dead". New York Times . April 17, 1964. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
  12. ↑ "Clarence D. Kerr, Attorney, 79, Dies. Partner in Patent Law Firm Was Leader in Princeton and Englewood Activities Active in Church". New York Times . September 21, 1957. Retrieved October 24, 2011.
  13. ↑ "Col. H. V. D. Moore of Army Reserves. Member of New York Stock Exchange and Ex-Mayor of Englewood Dies at 58". New York Times . April 1, 1937. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
  14. ↑ Thomas Fensch (2001). FBI Files on the Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping. p. 84. ISBN   0-930751-15-9.
  15. ↑ "Cornelius P. Kitchell, Englewood Leader". New York Times . January 4, 1947. Retrieved October 24, 2011.
  16. ↑ "Charles Hayward, Englewood Mayor. Head of a Textile Exporting Firm Here Dies at Home as He Listens to Radio". New York Times . October 12, 1937. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
  17. ↑ "Mayor of Englewood Asks Fight on Erie Curtailment". New York Times . September 8, 1939. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
  18. ↑ "C.W. Floyd Coffin, Englewood Mayor And Rail-Supply Executive, Dies". New York Times . August 3, 1968. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
  19. ↑ "Donald A. Quarles". IEEE Global History Network. IEEE. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
  20. ↑ 1951: First Direct-Dial Transcontinental Telephone Call Archived 2007-08-06 at the Wayback Machine , AT&T. Accessed June 8, 2007. "Nov. 10, 1951: Mayor M. Leslie Downing of Englewood, N.J., picked up a telephone and dialed 10 digits. Eighteen seconds later, he reached Mayor Frank Osborne in Alameda, Calif. The mayors made history as they chatted in the first customer-dialed long-distance call, one that introduced area codes."
  21. ↑ "Private Golf Club Asks Tenafly For a Permit to Build Course". New York Times . November 20, 1960. Retrieved October 19, 2011.
  22. ↑ "Albert Moskin, 94. Ex-Bergen Freeholder Was Englewood Mayor and Councilman". The Bergen Record . June 14, 1994. Archived from the original on April 9, 2016. Retrieved October 31, 2011.
  23. 1 2 "Summer Southampton resident Austin N. Volk dies at 91". The Southampton Press (27East.com). September 22, 2010. Archived from the original on August 28, 2016. Retrieved October 6, 2010.
  24. 1 2 Jay Levin (September 21, 2010). "Austin N. Volk, former Englewood mayor, dies at 91". Bergen Record . Archived from the original on September 25, 2010. Retrieved October 6, 2010.
  25. ↑ "Pickett To Perform In Concert To Settle Dispute With Mayor". Jet magazine . Johnson Publishing Company. March 15, 1993. Retrieved October 25, 2011.
  26. ↑ Van Dusen, Matthew; Pries, Allison (January 1, 2010). "Englewood to welcome new mayor at Tuesday reoganization[sic] meeting". The Record. Archived from the original on January 3, 2010. Retrieved July 20, 2011.
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