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.2012 New Jersey Legislative District Data Book, Rutgers University Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, March 2013, p. 157.[https://web.archive.org/web/20080509162658/http://www.cityofenglewood.org/ENGLEWOOD_CITY_CHARTER.pdf City Charter], City of Englewood, backed up by the Internet Archive as of May 9, 2008. Accessed September 16, 2017. 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.englewoodlibrary.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/MayorsoftheCityofEnglewood.pdf |title=Mayors of the City of Englewood |access-date=2011-10-21 |publisher=Englewood Library }}{{cite book |author=Adaline Wheelock Sterling |author-link=Adaline Wheelock Sterling |title=The Book of Englewood |year=1922 |publisher=Mayor of Englewood, New Jersey |page=277 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uGkWAAAAYAAJ&q=Munroe&pg=PA278 }}

Mayors

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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.{{cite web |url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/curren-currin.html |title=Daniel A. Currie |access-date=2011-10-25 |quote=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. |publisher=Political Graveyard }}
Elbert Adrain Brinckerhoff (1838–1913)1899 to May 1901He resigned. He was the first legal mayor of Englewood, New Jersey.{{cite news |title=Three Large Projects Nearing Completion for Occupancy Early This Fall |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1938/09/25/archives/englewood-gets-garden-suites-three-large-projects-nearing.html |quote= E. A. Brinckerhoff; Mayor of Englewood in 1899. ...|newspaper=New York Times |date=September 25, 1938 |access-date=2011-10-19 }}{{cite news |title=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 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1913/03/24/archives/pa-bri13kerhoff-bahkprebident-dies-jead-of-merchants-bank-rode-the.html |quote=Elbert Adrian Brinckerhoff, founder of the cotton firm of Brinckerhoff, ... |newspaper=New York Times |date=March 24, 1913 |access-date=2011-10-20 }} He recommended an increase in the police force from seven police officers to nine, and the building of a city hall.{{cite book |author=Adaline Wheelock Sterling |author-link=Adaline Wheelock Sterling |title=The book of Englewood |year=1922 |publisher=Mayor of Englewood, New Jersey |page=189|quote=In his first message, Mayor Brinckerhoff recommended an increase in the police force from seven to nine and ... | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uGkWAAAAYAAJ&q=Brinckerhoff+englewood&pg=PA189 }}
J. C. Anderson1901 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.{{cite news |title=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 |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0911FC3E5C1B7A93C5A9178ED85F4C8385F9 |quote=Dan Fellows Platt, archaeologist, art collector, author and former Mayor of Englewood, died this morning in his home at Booth Avenue and Lydecker Street, ... |newspaper=New York Times |date=May 7, 1938 |access-date=2011-10-19 }}
Donald Mackay1906 to 1909
James A. C. Johnson (1867–1937)1910 to 1911 JanuaryHe resigned to join the New Jersey Senate.{{cite news |title=James A. Johnson, Ex-Legislator, 70. Served in New Jersey Senate From 1911 to 1913. Dies in Jamaica, B. W. I. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/12/18/archives/james-a-johnson-exlegislator-70-served-in-new-jersey-senate-from.html |quote=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. |newspaper=New York Times |date=December 18, 1937 |access-date=2011-10-19 }}
Hezekiah Birtwhistle (?–1911)1911 January to 1911 OctoberAs acting mayor. He died in office.
William Conklin1911 October to 1911 DecemberHe was the acting mayor.
Vernon Monroe1912 to 1915
Clinton Hamlin Blake, Jr. (1883–?)1915 to 1917{{cite news |title=Mrs. Clinton H. Blake |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10B16F63A5F1A718DDDA80994DD405B878AF1D3 |quote=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. ...|newspaper=New York Times |date=May 11, 1967 |access-date=2011-10-19 }}
David J. McKenna1918 October to 1921 December{{cite news |title=N. A. McKenna, Banker, is Dead |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50810F8385B1B728DDDAE0994DC405B848AF1D3 |quote=He was a son of David J. McKenna, a former Mayor of Englewood, NJ, |newspaper=New York Times |date=April 17, 1964 |access-date=2011-10-19 }}
Clarence Dillworth Kerr (?–1957)1922 to 1923{{cite news |title=Clarence D. Kerr, Attorney, 79, Dies. Partner in Patent Law Firm Was Leader in Princeton and Englewood Activities Active in Church |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30612FF355F11738DDDA80A94D1405B8789F1D3 |quote=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 ... |newspaper=New York Times |date=September 21, 1957 |access-date=2011-10-24 }}
Colonel Harriot Van Devanter Moore (1879–1937)1924 to 1925{{cite news |title=Col. H. V. D. Moore of Army Reserves. Member of New York Stock Exchange and Ex-Mayor of Englewood Dies at 58 |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0F15F63E5A157A93C3A9178FD85F438385F9 |quote=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. ... |newspaper=New York Times |date=April 1, 1937 |access-date=2011-10-19 }}
Douglas Gillespie Thomson, Sr. (1885–?)1926 to 1929He acted as an intermediary during the Lindbergh kidnapping with Arthur W. Springer.{{cite book |author=Thomas Fensch |author-link=Thomas Fensch |title=FBI Files on the Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping |year=2001 |page=84 |quote=... 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, ... | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OvbRvotK3C4C&q=%22Douglas+G.+Thomson%22+englewood&pg=PA84 |isbn=0-930751-15-9 }}
Cornelius Porter Kitchel (1875–1947)1930 to 1933{{cite news |title=Cornelius P. Kitchell, Englewood Leader |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1947/01/15/archives/cornelius-kitchel-englewood-leader.html |quote=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. ... |newspaper=New York Times |date=January 4, 1947 |access-date=2011-10-24 }}
Irving S. Reeve1934 to 1935
Charles B. Hayward (1877–1937)1936 to 1937 OctoberHe died in office.{{cite news |title=Charles Hayward, Englewood Mayor. Head of a Textile Exporting Firm Here Dies at Home as He Listens to Radio |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70F11F93E59177A93C0A8178BD95F438385F9 |quote=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. ... |newspaper=New York Times |date=October 12, 1937 |access-date=2011-10-19 }}
Robert Story Tipping (1887–?)1937 October to 1939He was born on 4 May 1887.{{cite news |title=Mayor of Englewood Asks Fight on Erie Curtailment |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00B14F83854107A93CAA91782D85F4D8385F9 |quote=Mayor Robert S. Tipping today issued a call to Mayors of municipalities along the Northern Railroad ... |newspaper=New York Times |date=September 8, 1939 |access-date=2011-10-19 }}
Clarence Ambrose Clough (1883–?)1940 to 1941He married Ethel Kipp.
Charles William Floyd Coffin (1888–1968)1942 to 1945{{cite news |title=C.W. Floyd Coffin, Englewood Mayor And Rail-Supply Executive, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1968/08/03/archives/floyd-coffin-englewood-mayor-and-r-ailsupply-executivedies.html |quote=Charles William Floyd Coffin, former Mayor of Englewood and board chairman of the Franklin Balmar Corporation of Baltimore, died today at Englewood Hospital. ... |newspaper=New York Times |date=August 3, 1968 |access-date=2011-10-19 }}
Donald Aubrey Quarles (1894–1959)1946 to 1947{{cite web |url=http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Donald_A._Quarles |title=Donald A. Quarles |work=IEEE Global History Network |publisher=IEEE |access-date=August 9, 2011|quote=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]. ...}}
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.[http://www.corp.att.com/attlabs/reputation/timeline/51trans.html 1951: First Direct-Dial Transcontinental Telephone Call] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070806041804/http://www.corp.att.com/attlabs/reputation/timeline/51trans.html |date=2007-08-06 }}, 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."
Watson Gerald Clark, Jr.1954 to 1955{{cite news |title=Private Golf Club Asks Tenafly For a Permit to Build Course |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1960/11/20/archives/private-golf-club-asks-tenafly-for-a-permit-to-build-course.html |quote=W. Gerould Clark, Jr., former Mayor of Englewood, is representing Mr. Gray ... |newspaper=New York Times |date=November 20, 1960 |access-date=2011-10-19 }}
Albert Moskin (1900–1994)1956 to 1959{{cite news |title=Albert Moskin, 94. Ex-Bergen Freeholder Was Englewood Mayor and Councilman |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-22548113.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409182134/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-22548113.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 9, 2016 |quote=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 ... |newspaper=The Bergen Record |date=June 14, 1994 |access-date=2011-10-31 }}
Austin Volk (1918–2010)1960 to 1963
Francis J. Donovan (?–1965)1964 to 1965 AprilHe died in office.
William J. Ticknor1965 April to 1966As acting mayor.
Austin Volk (1918–2010)1966 to 1967{{cite news |title=Summer Southampton resident Austin N. Volk dies at 91 |url=http://www.27east.com/story_detail.cfm?id=302795&town=Southampton&n=Summer%20Southampton%20resident%20Austin%20N.%20Volk%20dies%20at%2091 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160828165037/http://www.27east.com/news/article.cfm/Southampton/302795/Summer-Southampton-resident-Austin-N-Volk-dies-at-91 |archive-date=2016-08-28 |newspaper=The Southampton Press (27East.com) |quote=Summer resident of Southampton Austin N. Volk of Englewood, New Jersey, died on Saturday, September 16, at his Southampton home. He was 91 ... |date=2010-09-22 |access-date=2010-10-06 }}{{cite news |author=Jay Levin |author-link=Jay Levin |title=Austin N. Volk, former Englewood mayor, dies at 91 |url=http://www.northjersey.com/obituaries/092110_Austin_N_Volk_former_Englewood_mayor_dies_at_91.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100925073619/https://www.northjersey.com/obituaries/092110_Austin_N_Volk_former_Englewood_mayor_dies_at_91.html |archive-date=2010-09-25 |newspaper=Bergen Record |quote=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. |date=2010-09-21 |access-date=2010-10-06}}
Robert I. Miller (?–2009)1968 to 1969
Ned Feldman1970 to 1971
Walter Taylor1972 to 1975First African-American mayor
Sondra J. Greenberg (1928–)1976 to 1982
Steven R. Rothman (1952–)1983 to 1988
Donald Aronson1989 to 1997In 1991 Wilson Pickett was arrested for making threats to Aronson.{{cite news |title=Pickett To Perform In Concert To Settle Dispute With Mayor |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xboDAAAAMBAJ&q=Mayor+of+Teaneck&pg=PA60 |quote=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. ... |newspaper=Jet magazine |date=March 15, 1993 |publisher= Johnson Publishing Company|access-date=2011-10-25 }}
Paul T. Fader (1959–2017)1998 to 2003
Michael Wildes (1964–)2004 to 2010
Frank Huttle III2010 to 2018{{cite news|author1=Van Dusen, Matthew |author2=Pries, Allison |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100103102720/http://www.northjersey.com/news/010110_Englewood_to_welcome_new_mayor_at_Tuesday_reoganization_meeting.html|url-status=dead|url=http://www.northjersey.com/news/010110_Englewood_to_welcome_new_mayor_at_Tuesday_reoganization_meeting.html|title=Englewood to welcome new mayor at Tuesday {{sic|nolink=y|reason=error in source|reoganization}} meeting|newspaper=The Record|date= January 1, 2010 |access-date=July 20, 2011|archive-date=2010-01-03 |quote= "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.".}}
Michael Wildes (1964–)2019–present

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