The Mayor of the City of Hoboken is the head of the executive branch of government of Hoboken, New Jersey, United States. The mayor has the duty to enforce the municipal charter and ordinances; prepare the annual budget; appoint deputy mayors, department heads, and aides; and approve or veto ordinances passed by the City Council. The mayor is popularly elected in a nonpartisan general election. The office is held for a four-year term without term limits.
John Vincent Kenny was mayor of Jersey City from 1949 to 1953.
The Mayor of the City of Jersey City is the head of the executive branch of the government of Jersey City, New Jersey, United States. The mayor has the duty to enforce the municipal charter and ordinances; prepare the annual budget; appoint deputy mayors, department heads, and aides; and approve or veto ordinances passed by the City Council. The mayor is popularly elected in a nonpartisan general election. The office is held for a four-year term without term limits, although the current term is a four-and-a-half-year term, due to a change in election dates.
Peter McMartin was the second Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey.
David Stout Manners was the ninth Mayor of Jersey City. He succeeded Robert Gilchrist. A Whig politician, he served five one-year terms from May 3, 1852 to May 3, 1857. He was succeeded by Samuel Wescott.
Thomas A. Alexander was the fourth mayor of Jersey City in New Jersey. He succeeded Dudley S. Gregory. He served a single one-year term from April 1842 to April 1843. He was succeeded by Peter Bentley, Sr.
Peter Bentley, Sr. was the fifth mayor of Jersey City in New Jersey. He succeeded Thomas A. Alexander. He served a single one-year term from April 1843 to April 1844. He was succeeded by Phineas C. Dummer.
Phineas Cook Dummer was the sixth mayor of Jersey City in New Jersey. He succeeded Peter Bentley, Sr. A Whig politician, he served four one-year terms from April 1844 to April 20, 1848. He was succeeded by Henry C. Taylor.
Henry C. Taylor was the seventh mayor of Jersey City in New Jersey.
Samuel Wescott was the tenth Mayor of Jersey City. He succeeded David Stout Manners. Wescott served a single term from May 4, 1857 to May 2, 1858. He was succeeded by Dudley S. Gregory. Wescott served in the New Jersey State Senate from 1860 to 1862.
John B. Romar was the thirteenth Mayor of Jersey City. He succeeded Cornelius Van Vorst. Romar served from May 5, 1862 to May 1, 1864. He was succeeded by Orestes Cleveland.
Marilyn Roman is an American educator and Democratic Party politician who served as Acting Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey. As City Council President, she became Acting Mayor succeeding Gerald McCann after his removal from office. Roman was the first woman to hold the office of mayor in the history of Jersey City.
Alexander Taggart McGill was an American jurist and Democratic party politician from New Jersey. He served as chancellor of the New Jersey court of chancery from 1887 to 1900 and was the Democratic nominee for Governor of New Jersey in 1895.
Robert Gilchrist Jr. was the Attorney General of New Jersey from 1870 to 1875.
Lorenzo Welton Elder, M.D. was an American physician and politician who served as the sixth mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey from 1863 to 1864 during the American Civil War. It was through his efforts that the Hudson County Board of Health was established. He was president of the Hudson County Pathology Society and was deputy adjutant-general on the staff of Governor Rodman McCamley Price. He was the local medical examiner of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company of Newark, New Jersey, and of the New York Life Insurance Company. He was three times elected as the tax commissioner for Hoboken.
George William Morton was an American politician who served as the Clerk of the Court for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York under Judge Samuel Betts. He was the third Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey from 1858 to 1859.
Charles T. Perry was an American politician who served as the seventh Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey from 1864 to 1865. Perry was a Whig in 1852, but was the Democratic nominee for City Treasurer in 1858 when George W. Morton ran for mayor. He was President of the Hudson County Gaslight Company and a director of the First National Bank of Hoboken.
Frederick Beasley Ogden was an American attorney, jurist, and politician who served as the eighth Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey from 1865 to 1867.
Hazen Kimball was an American merchant, banker, and politician who served as the tenth Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey from 1869 to 1871. Kimball was vice president of the First National Bank of Hoboken and president of the Gansevoort Bank of New York.
Frederick W. Bohnstedt was an American jurist and Democratic party politician who served as the ninth Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey from 1867 to 1869.
