Adolph Lankering
{{Short description|Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Adolph Lankering
|image = File:Adolph Lankering circa 1915.png
|birth_date = {{Birth date|1851|1|9}}
|birth_place = Verden an der Aller, Kingdom of Hanover
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1937|2|4|1851|1|9}}
|death_place = Christ Hospital
Jersey City, New Jersey
|residence = Hoboken, New Jersey
|office = Mayor of Hoboken
|order = 23rd
|term_start = 1902
|term_end = 1906
|predecessor = Lawrence Fagan
|successor =George H. Steil
}}
Adolph Lankering (January 9, 1851 – February 4, 1937) was the mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey from 1902 to 1906. He was the postmaster for Hoboken starting in 1916.
Biography
He was born in January 1850 in Verden an der Aller, Kingdom of Hanover to Heinrich Lankering and Matilde Germann. In 1869 he served in the German Army and in 1871 he became the army paymaster.
In 1875, he migrated to Chicago, Illinois, where he worked for Sandhagen & Co. in the cigar trade. He married Louise Fistedt of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1883 in Chicago. He moved to Hoboken, New Jersey, and founded the Lankering Cigar Co. with his two brothers.
He was the police commissioner for Hoboken in 1900. He was elected the mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey, from 1902 to 1906.
He died on February 4, 1937, at Christ Hospital in Jersey City, New Jersey.{{cite news |title=Adolph Lankering, 86, Of Hoboken, Is Dead. Mayor There From 1902 to 1906 and One of Wilson's First Political Boosters |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/02/04/archives/adolph-lankering-86-of-hoboken-is-dead-mayor-there-from-1902-to.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=February 4, 1937 |accessdate=2015-04-01 }}{{cite news |page=81 |title=Adolph Lankering, Postmaster, Hoboken, New Jersey |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KT42AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA81 |newspaper=The Post Office Clerk |date=1916 |accessdate=2015-04-01 }}
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Category:19th-century American businesspeople
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Category:20th-century mayors of places in New Jersey
Category:Mayors of Hoboken, New Jersey
Category:Emigrants from the German Empire to the United States