The Political Graveyard: Mayors of Jersey City, New Jersey

Mayors of Jersey City, New Jersey

Mayors of Jersey City, 1838-2008 (may be incomplete!)
Dudley S. Gregory 1838-40 Peter McMartin 1840-41 Dudley S. Gregory 1841-42 Thomas A. Alexander 1842-43 Peter Bentley 1843-44 Phineas C. Dummer 1844-48 Henry C. Taylor 1848-50 Robert Gilchrist 1850-52 David S. Manners 1852-57 Samuel Wescott 1857-58 Dudley S. Gregory 1858-60 Cornelius Van Vorst 1860-62 John R. Romar 1862-64 Orestes Cleveland 1864-67 James Gopsill 1867-68 Charles H. O'Neill 1868-69 William Clarke 1869-70 Charles H. O'Neill 1870-74 Henry Traphagen 1874-76 Charles Seidler 1876-78 Henry J. Hopper 1878-80 Isaac W. Taussig 1880-84 Gilbert Collins 1884-86 Orestes Cleveland 1886-92 Peters F. Wanser 1892-97 Edward Hoos 1897-1901 Mark M. Fagan 1902-07 H. Otto Wittpen 1908-13 Mark M. Fagan 1913-17 Frank Hague 1917-47 Frank H. Eggers 1947-49 John V. Kenny 1949-53 Bernard J. Berry 1953-57 Charles S. Witkowski 1957-61 Thomas Gangemi 1961-63 Thomas J. Whelan 1963-71 Charles K. Krieger 1971 Paul T. Jordan 1971-77 Thomas F. X. Smith 1977-81 Gerald McCann 1981-85 Anthony R. Cucci 1985-89 Gerald McCann 1989-92 Marilyn Roman 1992 Joseph Rakowski 1992 Bret Schundler 1992-2001 Glenn D. Cunningham 2001-04 L. Harvey Smith 2004 Jerramiah T. Healy 2004-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1853 Apr 12: David S. Manners (Whig), elected; Charles Fink (Dem), defeated.

1854 Apr 11: David S. Manners (Whig), elected; Alexander H. Wallis (Dem), defeated.

1855 Apr 10: David S. Manners (Independent Whig), elected; Selah Hill (Dem & Temperance), defeated.

1856 Apr 8: David S. Manners, elected.

1857 Apr 14: Samuel Wescott (Dem), elected; Alexander H. Wallis (Union), defeated.

1858 Apr 13: Dudley S. Gregory (Rep), elected; John Van Vorst (Dem), defeated.

1859 Apr 13: Dudley S. Gregory (Rep), elected.

1869 Apr 10: Charles H. O'Neill, resigned.

1901: Mark M. Fagan (Rep), elected; George T. Smith (Dem), defeated.

1903: Mark M. Fagan (Rep), elected; James J. Murphy (Dem), defeated.

1905: Mark M. Fagan (Rep), elected; Archibald Henry (Dem), defeated.

1907: Mark M. Fagan, defeated.

1909: Mark M. Fagan, defeated.

1949: John V. Kenny, elected; Frank H. Eggers, defeated.

1953: John V. Kenny, elected.

1953 Dec 15: John V. Kenny, resigned.

1957: Bernard J. Berry, defeated; Charles S. Witkowski, elected.

1961: Thomas Gangemi, elected; Bernard J. Berry, defeated; Charles S. Witkowski, defeated.

1963 Sep 25: Thomas Gangemi, resigned.

1965: Thomas J. Whelan, elected; Thomas Gangemi, defeated.

1969: Thomas J. Whelan, elected; Thomas Gangemi, Jr., defeated.

1971: Paul T. Jordan, elected; Charles K. Krieger, defeated.

1971 Jul 6: Thomas J. Whelan, removed.

1973: Paul T. Jordan, elected.

1977: Thomas F. X. Smith, elected.

1985 May 14: Anthony R. Cucci, advanced to runoff; Gerald McCann, advanced to runoff; William Massa, defeated; Rose Aragona, defeated.

1985 Jun 11: Anthony R. Cucci, elected; Gerald McCann, defeated.

1989: Thomas F. X. Smith, defeated; Glenn D. Cunningham, defeated; Anthony R. Cucci, defeated.

1992 Feb 13: Gerald McCann, removed.

2004 May 25: Glenn D. Cunningham, died in office.

2004 Nov 2: Jerramiah T. Healy, elected; Louis M. Manzo, defeated; L. Harvey Smith, defeated; Willie L. Flood, defeated; Steve Lipski, defeated; Hilario Nunez, Jr., defeated; Hosam Mansour, defeated; Dwayne Baskerville, defeated; Isaiah J. Gadsden, defeated; Alfred Marc Pine, defeated; Thomas Short, defeated.

2005: Jerramiah T. Healy, elected.

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