Mayor of East Orange, New Jersey

Mayors of East Orange, New Jersey:

Lester E. Taylor, III 2014 to present.

Robert L. Bowser 1994 to 2014.

Cardell Cooper 1990 to 1994 was the youngest mayor.[1] He would later be appointed by President Clinton to be Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development [2]

John C. Hatcher, Jr. 1986 to 1990.

Thomas H. Cooke, Jr. 1978 to 1986.

William Stanford Hart, Sr. (1925-1999) 1970 to 1978.

James W. Kelly, Jr. (1908-1990) 1958 to 1970.

William M. McConnell 1952 to 1958.

Charles Henry Martens(1883-1955) 1918 to 1952.[3]

Julian Arthur Gregory(1874-1955) 1914 to 1918.[4]

Worrall Frederick Mountain (1874-1935) 1911 to 1914.[5]

William Cardwell (1856-1931) 1905 to 1911

Edward Everett Bruen (1860-1938) 1899 to 1905, was the first mayor.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Cardell Cooper". Boston, Massachusetts. Retrieved 2011-10-16. In 1989, Mr. Cooper was elected mayor of East Orange, New Jersey, making him the youngest mayor in the city's history. The citizens of East Orange re-elected him to a second term in 1993. During his two terms as mayor, East Orange experienced a resurgence of civic pride and community involvement.
  2. ↑ "President Names Cardell Cooper Assistant Secretary at HUD". Retrieved 2012-01-02.
  3. ↑ "East Orange Picks Martens". New York Times. November 4, 1936. Retrieved 2011-10-16. Mr. Martens was a candidate for his tenth two-year term as Mayor of East Orange.
  4. ↑ Hester Eloise Horsford and Herman B. Walker: Forerunners of Woodrow Wilson (East Orange, N.J.: Record Print, 1914), pp. 76-79
  5. ↑ "East Orange Memorial Dedicated". New York Times. November 12, 1932. Retrieved 2011-10-16. The principal speaker at the ceremonies was Judge Worrall F. Mountain who was Mayor of East Orange when the United States entered the war. ...
  6. ↑ "Edward E. Bruen, A Realty Dealer. First Mayor of East Orange Established Firm 53 Years Ago. Dies at 78. Served Elevated Lines. Secretary to Thomas Peeples of Manhattan Company. Descendant of Settlers". New York Times. May 12, 1938. Retrieved 2011-10-16. Edward E. Bruen, first Mayor of this city and dean of real estate men in this area, died last night at his home here after a five months' illness. He was in his seventy-ninth year.
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