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Jersey City, New Jersey
including Hudson City
Mayors, Postmasters

Mayors of Jersey City, 1838-2009 (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 Peter 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 M. Henry (Dem), defeated.
  • 1907: Mark M. Fagan, defeated.
  • 1909: Mark M. Fagan, defeated.
  • 1909 Nov 2: H. Otto Wittpen (Dem), elected.
  • 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: Louis M. Manzo, defeated.
  • 1992 Feb 13: Gerald McCann, removed.
  • 1993: Louis M. Manzo, defeated.
  • 1997: Jerramiah T. Healy, defeated.
  • 2001: Louis M. Manzo, defeated.
  • 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.
  • 2009: Louis M. Manzo, defeated.
  • 2009 May 12: Jerramiah T. Healy, elected.

    Postmasters at Jersey City, 1806-1969 (may be incomplete!)
    Samuel Beach 1806-13 Charles A. Jackson 1813-15 Joseph Lyon 1815-20 William Lyon 1820-35 William R. Taylor 1835-37 Samuel Bridgart 1837-41 David Smith 1841-45 John Ogden 1845-46 Samuel Bridgart 1846-49 David Smith 1849-53 Samuel M. Chambers 1853-61 Henry A. Greene 1861-79 John G. Gopsill 1879-88 John F. Kelly 1888-89 Samuel D. Dickinson 1889-94 Robert S. Jordan 1894-98 Peter F. Wanser 1898-1915 Matthais C. Ely 1915-23 John Rotherham 1923-31 George H. Russell 1931-32 George H. Russell 1932-36 William P. Kern 1936 William P. Kern 1936-63 Joseph Leo Mailly 1963-67 William V. Heffernan 1967 William V. Heffernan 1967-69

    Hudson City
    (consolidated with Jersey City 1870)

    Mayors of Hudson City, 1856-70 (may be incomplete!)
    Garret D. Van Reipen as of 1856 Garret D. Van Reipen as of 1863-70

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