Mayors of New Brunswick, New Jersey

Mayors of New Brunswick, New Jersey:^[1]

Term of office	Mayor	Born and died	Notes and references
1991–	James M. Cahill		62nd mayor
1979–1991	John A. Lynch, Jr.	(born 1938)	61st mayor
1978–1978	Gilbert L. Nelson		Appointed
1975–1978	Richard J. Mulligan		Resigned
1974–1975	Aldrage B. Cooper II		Appointed
1967–1974	Patricia Q. Sheehan		Last under Mayor Commission and first under Mayor Council. He resigned
1955–1967	Chester W. Paulus
1951–1954	John A. Lynch, Sr.	(1908–1978)	[2]
1943–1951	Chester W. Paulus
1942–1943	Harry W. Dwyer
1939–1942	Richard V. Mulligan
1935–1939	Frederick F. Richardson
1918–1935	John J. Morrison		[3]
1915–1918	Edward Farrington (mayor)	(?-1918)	He died in office.[3]
1914–1915	Austin Scott	(1848–1922)	[3][4]
1910–1914	John J. Morrison		[3]
1908–1910	W. Edwin Florance		[3]
1906–1908	Drury W. Cooper		[3]
1904–1906	William S. Meyers		[3]
1902–1904	George A. Viehmann		[3]
1895–1902	Nicholas Williamson		[3]
1889–1895	James H. VanCleef		[3]
1881–1889	William S. Strong		[3]
1879–1881	T. DeWitt Reiley		[3]
1877–1879	Lyle van Nuis		[3]
1875–1877	Isaiah Rolfe		[3]
1873–1875	Thomas M. deRussey		[3]
1871–1873	Garrett Conover	b. 1817	[3] Some sources use the years 1874-1875.
1869–1871	George J. Janeway		[3]
1867–1869	Miles Ross	(1827–1903)	[3]
1865–1867	John T. Jenkins		[3]
1865–1865	Augustus T. Stout	(1816-1865)	He died in office shortly after being elected.[3]
1863–1865	Richard McDonald (mayor)		He was the first mayor under the seventh city charter of 1863.[3]
1861–1863	Lyle van Nuis
1860–1861	Ezekiel M. Patterson
1859–1860	Peter C. Onderdonk
1858–1859	Tunis V.D. Hoagland
1857–1858	John Bayard Kirkpatrick
1856–1857	Lyle van Nuis
1855–1856	Abraham V. Schenk
1853–1855	John B. Hill
1851–1852	Peter N. Wyckoff
1849–1851	David Fitz Randolph
1848–1849	Augustus R. Taylor		He was a physician.
1847–1848	Martin A. Howell
1846–1847	John Van Dyke	(1807–1878)
1845–1846	William H. Leupp
1843–1845	John Acken
1842–1843	Fitz Randolph Smith
1841–1842	Littleton Kirkpatrick	(1787–1859)
1840–1841	David W. Vail	(?-1842)
1838–1840	Augustus R. Taylor	(1782-?)	He was a physician.[5]
1829–1838	C. L. Hardenbergh
1824–1829	Augustus R. Taylor		He was a physician.
1821–1824	James Schureman	(1756–1824)	He died in office.
1813–1821	James Bennett (mayor)	(?-1821)	He died in office.
1801–1813	James Schureman	(1756–1824)
1796–1801	Abraham Schuyler
1794–1796	John Bubenheim Bayard	(1738–1807)
1793–1794	Lewis Dunham (mayor)		He was a physician. Other sources use the term 1792-1794
1790–1793	James Schureman	(1756–1824)	Other sources put Bayard in this term
1784–1790	Azariah Dunham	(1718–1790)
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1757	James Hude		Building of Presbyterian Church
1730–1747	Thomas Farmar		First Mayor of New Brunswick, New Jersey

References

1. "Mayors of New Brunswick, New Jersey". Political Graveyard. Retrieved 2011-10-25. John Bubenheim Bayard 1790 James Schureman 1801-13 James Bennett 1813-21 James Schureman 1821-24 Augustus R. Taylor 1824-29 C. L. Hardenbergh 1829-38 Augustus R. Taylor 1838-40 David M. Vail 1840-41 Littleton Kirkpatrick 1841-42 Fitz Randolph Smith 1842-43 John Acken 1843-45 William H. Leupp 1845-46 John Van Dyke 1846-47 Martin A. Howell 1847-48 Augustus F. Taylor 1848-49 David F. Randolph 1849-51 Peter N. Wyckoff 1851-52 John Van Dyke 1852-53 John B. Hill 1853-55 Abraham V. Schenck 1855-56 Lyle Van Nuis 1856-57 John B. Kirkpatrick 1857-58 Tunis V. D. Hoagland 1858-59 Peter C. Onderdonk 1859-60 Ezekiel M. Peterson 1860-61 Lyle Van Nuis 1861-63 Richard McDonald 1863-65 Augustus T. Stout 1865 John T. Jenkins 1865-67 Miles Ross 1867-69 George J. Janeway 1869-71 Garret Conover 1871-73 Thomas M. De Russy 1873-75 Isaiah Rolfe 1875-77 Lyle Van Nuis 1877-79 T. De Witt Reiley 1879-81 William S. Strong 1881-82 James H. Van Cleef 1892 John J. Morrison 1932 John A. Lynch 1951-55 James M. Cahill 2007
2. "John A. Lynch, Senator in Jersey. Mayor of New Brunswick, 1951-55". New York Times. 1978-03-04. Retrieved 2009-05-03. John A. Lynch, a former Mayor of New Brunswick and a 22-year veteran of the New Jersey Senate, died today at Whitestone Hospital in Queens. He was 69 years old, and had fought a losing battle with cancer for the last four years.
3. History of Middlesex County, New Jersey. 1921. p. 298. New Brunswick was to receive her seventh city charter in 1863. Legislation, however, did not greatly affect the provisions of the previous charter. The term of office of the mayor was made two years. The first mayor under the new charter was Richard McDonald; his successors have been as follows: Augustus T. Stout, 1865; John T. Jenkins, 1865-67; Miles Ross, 1867-69; Dr. George J. Janeway, 1869-71; Garret Conover, 1871-73; Thomas DeRussy, 1873-75; Isaiah Rolfe, 1875-77; Dewitt T. Reiley, 1879-81; William S. Strong, 1881-89; James H. Van Cleef, 1889-95; Nicholas Williamson, 1895-1902; George A. Viehmann, 1902-04; William S. Myers, 1904-06; Drury W. Cooper, 1906-08; W. Edwin Florance, 1908-10; John J. Morrison, 1910-14; Austin Scott, 1914-15; Edward F. Farrington, 1915-18; John J. Morrison, 1918. New Brunswick adopted the commission form of government March 7, 1915, under the State law for governing cities, passed by the legislature of 1914.
4. "Austin Scott (1891-1906)". Rutgers University. Retrieved 2010-12-21. An eminent and influential teacher, Dr. Austin Scott (1848-1922), was Professor of History, Political Economy, and Constitutional Law in Rutgers College when the Trustees elected him to succeed Merrill Gates as president in 1891. He was born in Maumee, near Toledo, Ohio, graduated from Yale College in 1869, and spent a year at the University of Michigan, where in 1870 he received a master of arts degree. ...
5. "Augustus R. Taylor". Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey (Medical Society of New Jersey). September 1, 1916. Retrieved 2011-11-01.