Mayor of Orange, New Jersey
Orange, New Jersey is governed within the Faulkner Act, formally known as the Optional Municipal Charter Law, under the Mayor-Council form of municipal government, with a directly elected mayor and a City Council consisting of four ward representatives and three at-large representatives. Councilmembers are elected to serve four-year terms of office in non-partisan elections on a staggered basis with the four ward seats and the three at-large seats coming up for election on an alternating cycle every two years.[1]
Mayors
- Dwayne D. Warren, 2016 to 2020.[2]
- Eldridge Hawkins Jr. 2010 to 2016.[3]
- Mims Hackett 1996 to 2008.[4]
- Russell A. Riley to 1996
- Joseph Promollo
- William Howe Davis, 1942 to 1954.[5]
- Ovid C. Bianchi
- Daniel Francis Minahan 1914 to 1919.[6]
- George Huntington Hartford, 1878 to 1890.
References
- 2012 New Jersey Legislative District Data Book, Rutgers University Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, March 2013, p. 125.
- Office of the Mayor, City of Orange Township. Accessed July 4, 2016.
- “Orange Mayor Mims Hackett pleads guilty to corruption change” The Star-Ledger May 27, 2008. Accessed March 25, 2011.
- Staff. "Ex-Mayor Mims Hackett faces sentencing for official misconduct", The Star-Ledger, January 23, 2009. Accessed December 27, 2017. "A native of Birmingham, Ala., Hackett served as North Ward councilman in Orange from 1988 to 1996, the city's mayor from 1996 until he resigned May 27 - the same day he entered his guilty plea - and three terms in the Assembly."
- "Mayor Davis of Orange Quits", The New York Times, March 6, 1954. Accessed December 27, 2017. "William H. Davis, who was appointed last month as state Alcoholic Beverage Commissioner, resigned today as Mayor of Orange, effective next Tuesday. He has been Mayor since 1942.
- Daniel Francis Minahan, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 23, 2007.
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