Jerome T. Congleton

Jerome Taylor Congleton (1876–1936) served as Mayor of Newark, New Jersey from 1928 to 1933.

Biography

He was born in Newark, New Jersey on August 25, 1876, the son of Joseph Norton Congleton and the former Mary Isabel Wade.^[1]

Congleton was elected as Mayor of Newark in 1928. In a wave of anti-incumbent backlash, he lost re-election.^[2]

On December 10, 1936, Congleton suffered a heart attack while driving his car and died. He was 60 years old.^[2]

References

↑ "World War I Draft Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]". United States: The Generations Network. 1918. Retrieved September 30, 2009.
1 2 Jerome Congleton of Newark, 60, Dies; Former Mayor Defeated for Re-Election After Effecting Depression Economies. Head of Trust Company. Carried Out Civic Improvement Plan -- Stricken in Car as He Stops at Curb, The New York Times, December 11, 1936. Accessed September 30, 2009.

External links

Biographical information for Jerome T. Congleton from The Political Graveyard

Preceded by Thomas Lynch Raymond	Mayor of Newark 1928–1933	Succeeded by Meyer C. Ellenstein

Mayors of Newark

Halsey Frelinghuysen Miller Halstead Wright Dod Baldwin Vanderpool Miller Quinby Poinier Bigelow Runyon Peddie Ricord Perry Yates Fiedler Henry Lang Haynes Lebkuecher Seymour, Sr. Doremus Haussling Raymond Gillen Archibald Breidenbach Raymond Congleton Ellenstein Murphy Villani Carlin Addonizio Gibson James Booker Quintana Baraka

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Wednesday, April 27, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.