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] [5]
Elbert Adrain Brinckerhoff (1838–1913)1899 to May 1901He resigned. He was the first legal mayor of Englewood, New Jersey. [3] [6] [7] He recommended an increase in the police force from seven police officers to nine, and the building of a city hall. [8]
J. C. Anderson 1901 May to 1901 DecemberAs acting mayor.
Daniel A. Currie (1842–1911)1902 to 1903 [5]
Dan Fellows Platt (1873–1937)1904 to 1905He died on 16 December 1937. [4] [9]
Donald Mackay 1906 to 1909 [4]
James A. C. Johnson (1867–1937)1910 to 1911 JanuaryHe resigned to join the New Jersey Senate. [10]
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 [11]
David J. McKenna 1918 October to 1921 December [12]
Clarence Dillworth Kerr (?–1957)1922 to 1923 [13]
Colonel Harriot Van Devanter Moore (1879–1937)1924 to 1925 [14]
Douglas Gillespie Thomson, Sr. (1885–?)1926 to 1929He acted as an intermediary during the Lindbergh kidnapping with Arthur W. Springer. [15]
Cornelius Porter Kitchel (1875–1947)1930 to 1933 [16]
Irving S. Reeve 1934 to 1935
Charles B. Hayward (1877–1937)1936 to 1937 OctoberHe died in office. [17]
Robert Story Tipping (1887–?)1937 October to 1939He was born on 4 May 1887. [18]
Clarence Ambrose Clough (1883–?)1940 to 1941He married Ethel Kipp.
Charles William Floyd Coffin (1888–1968)1942 to 1945 [19]
Donald Aubrey Quarles (1894–1959)1946 to 1947 [20]
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. [21]
Watson Gerald Clark, Jr. 1954 to 1955 [22]
Albert Moskin (1900–1994)1956 to 1959 [23]
Austin Volk (1918–2010)1960 to 1963 [24] [25]
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 [24] [25]
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. [26]
Paul T. Fader (1959–2017)1998 to 2003
Michael Wildes (1964–)2004 to 2010
Frank Huttle III 2010 to 2018 [27]
Michael Wildes (1964–)2019–present

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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 2011-10-21.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Adaline Wheelock Sterling (1922). The Book of Englewood. Mayor of Englewood, New Jersey. p. 277.
  5. 1 2 "Daniel A. Currie". Political Graveyard . Retrieved 2011-10-25. Currie, Daniel A. (b. 1842) – of Englewood, Bergen County, N.J. Born in Searsville, Orange County, N.Y., October 10, 1842. Physician; mayor of Englewood, N.J., 1896; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Spanish–American War. Burial location unknown.
  6. ↑ "Three Large Projects Nearing Completion for Occupancy Early This Fall". New York Times . September 25, 1938. Retrieved 2011-10-19. E. A. Brinckerhoff; Mayor of Englewood in 1899. ...
  7. ↑ "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 2011-10-20. Elbert Adrian Brinckerhoff, founder of the cotton firm of Brinckerhoff, ...
  8. ↑ Adaline Wheelock Sterling (1922). The book of Englewood. Mayor of Englewood, New Jersey. p. 189. In his first message, Mayor Brinckerhoff recommended an increase in the police force from seven to nine and ...
  9. ↑ "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 2011-10-19. Dan Fellows Platt, archaeologist, art collector, author and former Mayor of Englewood, died this morning in his home at Booth Avenue and Lydecker Street, ...
  10. ↑ "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 2011-10-19. James A. C. Johnson, former New Jersey State Senator and a former Mayor of Englewood, died last night at Montigo Bay Hospital, Jamaica, British West Indies, at the age of 70, it was learned here today. He was spending the Winter there.
  11. ↑ "Mrs. Clinton H. Blake". New York Times . May 11, 1967. Retrieved 2011-10-19. Mrs. Margaret Coe Blake, widow of Clinton Hamlin Blake, Mayor of Englewood from 1915 to 1917, died today in Hightstown. She was 81 years old and a lifelong resident of Englewood. She also maintained a home in Sugar Hill, N.H. ...
  12. ↑ "N. A. McKenna, Banker, is Dead". New York Times . April 17, 1964. Retrieved 2011-10-19. He was a son of David J. McKenna, a former Mayor of Englewood, NJ,
  13. ↑ "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 2011-10-24. Clarence Dilworth Kerr, senior partner in the patent law firm of Fish, Richardson Neave of 20 Exchange Place, New York, died today at his home, 217 Cedar Street. He was 79 years old. Surviving are his widow, the former Janet Brinckerhoff of Englewood; four sons, John B. Kerr of Washington, Harold B. Kerr of Englewood, Clarence D. Kerr II ...
  14. ↑ "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 2011-10-19. Colonel Harriot Van Devanter Moore, acting brigadier general in command of the 155th Infantry brigade, Seventy-eighth Division, organized Reserve of U. S. A., and a member of the New York Stock Exchange, died in the Englewood Hospital today after an appendicitis operation. He was 58 years old. ...
  15. ↑ Thomas Fensch (2001). FBI Files on the Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping. p. 84. ISBN   0-930751-15-9. ... Arthur W. Springer, secretary to the late Senator Dwight W. Morrow, and Douglas G. Thomson, former Mayor of Englewood, as intermediaries to make contact with the kidnapers, ...
  16. ↑ "Cornelius P. Kitchell, Englewood Leader". New York Times . January 4, 1947. Retrieved 2011-10-24. Cornelius P. Kitchel, former Mayor of this city and former chief of the Legal Aid Society in New York, died at his home, in Englewood. ...
  17. ↑ "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 2011-10-19. Charles B. Hayward, Republican Mayor of Englewood, who would have completed his term of office on Jan. 1, died suddenly here at 8:30 tonight while listening to the radio at his home, 75 East Hamilton Avenue, of a heart attack at the age of 60. ...
  18. ↑ "Mayor of Englewood Asks Fight on Erie Curtailment". New York Times . September 8, 1939. Retrieved 2011-10-19. Mayor Robert S. Tipping today issued a call to Mayors of municipalities along the Northern Railroad ...
  19. ↑ "C.W. Floyd Coffin, Englewood Mayor And Rail-Supply Executive, Dies". New York Times . August 3, 1968. Retrieved 2011-10-19. Charles William Floyd Coffin, former Mayor of Englewood and board chairman of the Franklin Balmar Corporation of Baltimore, died today at Englewood Hospital. ...
  20. ↑ "Donald A. Quarles". IEEE Global History Network. IEEE. Retrieved August 9, 2011. Active in civic affairs in Englewood, Mr. Quarles has served as a member and then president of the Common Council from 1940 to 1946, and as mayor from 1946 to 1948 [sic]. ...
  21. ↑ 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."
  22. ↑ "Private Golf Club Asks Tenafly For a Permit to Build Course". New York Times . November 20, 1960. Retrieved 2011-10-19. W. Gerould Clark, Jr., former Mayor of Englewood, is representing Mr. Gray ...
  23. ↑ "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 2011-10-31. Albert Moskin, a former Englewood mayor and Bergen County freeholder, died Friday. He was 94. Mr. Moskin, an Englewood native, served 36 years in municipal and county government before retiring from public service in 1965. A pharmacist, he continued to operate Moskin's Pharmacy until 1980. He died in Bal ...
  24. 1 2 "Summer Southampton resident Austin N. Volk dies at 91". The Southampton Press . 2010-09-22. Retrieved 2010-10-06. Summer resident of Southampton Austin N. Volk of Englewood, New Jersey, died on Saturday, September 16, at his Southampton home. He was 91 ...[ permanent dead link ]
  25. 1 2 Jay Levin (2010-09-21). "Austin N. Volk, former Englewood mayor, dies at 91". Bergen Record . Retrieved 2010-10-06. Mr. Volk first served as mayor from 1960 to 1963. Englewood was ordered during that time to desegregate its public schools. He returned as mayor in January 1966. Less than four months after the racial disturbance, he was defeated in a historic election that produced a Democratic mayor and a Democratic majority on City Council. He later served two terms in the state Assembly.
  26. ↑ "Pickett To Perform In Concert To Settle Dispute With Mayor". Jet magazine . Johnson Publishing Company. March 15, 1993. Retrieved 2011-10-25. Soul singer Wilson Pickett agreed to perform for free in ... Pickett, who is Aronson's neighbor, said in Teaneck Municipal Court that he would perform as his community service. ...
  27. ↑ 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 2010-01-03. Retrieved July 20, 2011. "In Englewood, attorney Frank Huttle will be sworn in as the new mayor and Lynne Algrant becomes the latest addition to the council Tuesday night at the city's annual reorganization meeting. Huttle, who defeated longtime Councilman Scott Reddin by a narrow margin in the June primary, replaces Michael Wildes, who announced last year that he would not seek a third term.".
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