Mayors of Wildwood, New Jersey

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Wildwood, New Jersey, was incorporated on May 1, 1895, as a borough. and was reincorporated on January 1, 1912, as a city and merged with Holly Beach, New Jersey. It is governed by a three-member commission under the Walsh Act Commission form of municipal government. All three commissioners are elected at-large on a nonpartisan basis to serve concurrent four-year terms of office, with the vote taking place as part of the November general election. At a reorganization conducted after each election, the commission selects one of its members to serve as mayor and gives each commissioner an assigned department to oversee and operate. [1] The mayors were: [2]

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Mayors

MayorTermNotes
Ernest Troiano, Jr.2011This was his second term. He was voted out of office in a recall election. [3] [4]
Gary S. DeMarzo2009 to 2011 [5]
Ernest Troiano, Jr.2003 to 2009This was his first term.
Duane Sloan1999 to 2003
Fred Wager1995 to 1999 [6]
Edmund J. Grant Jr.1991 to 1995
Ralph Sheets1987 to 1991
Victor Di Sylvester1984 to 1987
Earl B. Ostrander1983 to 1984He was voted out of office in a recall election. [7]
Guy F. Muziani1972 to 1983 [8]
Charles Masciarella1968 to 1972
Ralph G. James1956 to 1968He served the longest term, 12 years, as Mayor of Wildwood, New Jersey. [9] [2]
W. Harry Steele Jr.1948 to 1956 [10]
George Wagner Krogman Sr. 1945 to 1948This was his second term.
Benjamin Charles Ingersoll 1944 to 1945He was born in Ocean City, New Jersey, and moved to Wildwood with his family when he was three years old. He worked as an undertaker and served as the Coroner of Cape May County, New Jersey. He died in office as mayor on December 6, 1945. [11]
George Wagner Krogman Sr. 1938 to 1944This was his first term. He was born on June 7, 1896, in Pennsylvania. [12]
Doris W. Bradway 1933 to 1938Doris W. Bradway was the first female mayor for the state of New Jersey. [13] She was a Republican. She was voted out of office in a recall election. [14]
William H. Bright1933
Robert G. Pierpont1927 to 1933
Edward Culver1924 to 1927
W. Courtwright Smith1921 to 1924
Frank E. Smith1912 to 1920
Jacob Thompson Baker 1911 to 1912This was his second term. [15] Latimer R. Baker, 1895 to 1911. [16]
W. Courtwright Smith1921 to 1924
W. C. Hendee1920 to 1921
Frank E. Smith1912 to 1920
Jacob Thompson Baker 1912This was his first term. Jacob Thompson Baker was the first mayor of Wildwood, New Jersey under the 1912 consolidation. The consolidation merged Wildwood Borough with Holly Beach City, New Jersey to form Wildwood, New Jersey. He served the shortest term as Mayor of Wildwood, New Jersey, at 11 months, because he was elected to the United States Congress. [2] [17]
Latimer R. Baker1895 to 1911He served during the pre-consolidation as the Mayor of Wildwood Borough, New Jersey which merged with Holly Beach City, New Jersey to form Wildwood, New Jersey.

Mayors of Holly Beach City, New Jersey

Holly Beach, New Jersey, was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 14, 1885, from portions of Lower Township, based on the results of a referendum held on March 31, 1885. The borough was reincorporated on April 1, 1890, based on a referendum held the previous day. [18] The borough was reincorporated as Holly Beach City on May 4, 1897. [18] On January 1, 1912, the area was included as part of the newly created Wildwood, New Jersey, and the borough was dissolved. [18] The mayors were: [19]

MayorTermNotes
Frank E. Smith1892 to 1911Frank E. Smith was the last Mayor of Holly Beach City, New Jersey. In 1911 the town was merged with Wildwood Borough, New Jersey to form Wildwood, New Jersey.
William E. Forcum1891This was his second term.
J.B. Osborn1890
William E. Forcum1886 to 1889This was his first term. [20]
Franklin J. Van Valin1885He was killed when he was struck by a train at a railroad crossing. Franklin J. Van Valin was the first Mayor of Holly Beach City, New Jersey. [19]

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