Mayor of Burlington, New Jersey

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Burlington, New Jersey was incorporated on December 21, 1784. It is governed within the Faulkner Act (formally known as the Optional Municipal Charter Law) under the Mayor-Council form of municipal government (Plan 4), implemented based on the recommendations of a Charter Study Commission as of January 1, 1992. The governing body consists of a mayor and a seven-member Common Council, all elected on a partisan basis in a vote held as part of the November general election.[1] The Mayor serves a four-year term of office. The Common Council consists of seven members, each serving four-year terms of office: three at-large Councilpersons representing the entire City and one representing each of the four voting wards, with the at||large and mayoral seats up for election as a group and the ward seats up for vote two years later.[2] The term for mayor runs from January 1 to December 31.

Mayors[]

Mayors are as follows:[3][4]

Mayor Term start Term end Notes
Bowes Reed 1785 1794 Burlington, New Jersey was incorporated on December 21, 1784. Bowes Reed was the first Mayor of Burlington, New Jersey. (November 1740 – July 20, 1794) was a Revolutionary officer, politician, and public servant from New Jersey. He was the brother of Joseph Reed, a member of the Continental Congress and President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania (equivalent to Governor).
Joseph Bloomfield 1795 1800 (October 18, 1753 – October 3, 1823) was the fourth Governor of New Jersey. The township of Bloomfield, New Jersey is named for him.
1801 1806
William Coxe, Jr. 1807 1815 (May 3, 1762 – February 25, 1831) was a pioneer pomologist and a U.S. Representative from New Jersey.
Joseph McIlvaine 1816 1823 (October 2, 1769 – August 19, 1826) was a United States Senator from New Jersey from 1823 until his death.
William Griffith 1824 1826 (1766 – June 7, 1826) was a United States federal judge.
1827 1833
John Larzalere 1834 1836
Samuel W. Earl 1837 1841
1842 1850
James Walter Wall 1851 1854 (May 26, 1820 – June 9, 1872) was a United States Senator from New Jersey during the American Civil War. He was the son of U.S. Senator Garret Dorset Wall.
Archibald W. Burns 1855 1857
1858 1862
Henry H. Hollembaek 1863 1866 He died on November 5, 1896. He attended Thomas Jefferson University for his medical degree.
1867 1869
1870 1872
1873 1875
1876 1878
1879 1882
1883 1891
1892 1894
1895 1898
Charles Y. Flanders 1899 1903
1904 1907
1908 1909
1910 1912
1913 1921
1922 1927
... 1928 1929
Harold Voorhees Holmes 1930 1934 He was a Republican. He defeated George Gunn, the Democratic opponent.
... 1935 1949
1950
... 1951
? 1966
1967 1991
... 1992 1995
1996 2007
2007 2007
2008 2015
2016 2019 Barry W. Conaway is the current Mayor of Burlington, New Jersey.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ 2012 New Jersey Legislative District Data Book, Rutgers University Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, March 2013, p. 38.
  2. ^ Council Function and Duties, City of Burlington. Accessed June 20, 2016.
  3. ^ "Mayors of Burlington, New Jersey". Political Graveyard. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
  4. ^ Charter of the City of Burlington: With the Ordinances; Revised and Printed. Burlington, New Jersey Common Council. p. 1.
  5. ^ Mayor Barry W. Conaway, City of Burlington. Accessed June 20, 2016.
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