Englewood, New Jersey was incorporated on March 17, 1899. Beginning in 1980, Englewood switched from a Mayor-Council form of government to a modified Council-Manager plan of government in accordance with a Special Charter granted by the New Jersey Legislature.2012 New Jersey Legislative District Data Book, Rutgers University Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, March 2013, p. 157.City Charter, City of Englewood, backed up by the Internet Archive as of May 9, 2008. Accessed September 16, 2017. Under this charter, the mayor retains appointive and veto powers, while the council acts as a legislative and policy making body, with some power to appoint and confirm appointments. The City Council consists of five members, each elected for a three-year term. Four are elected from the individual wards in which they live and the other is elected by a citywide vote as an at-large member. The city is divided into four wards which are approximately equal in population. Administrative functions are responsibilities of the City Manager. The six seats in the governing body are elected in a three-year cycle as part of the November general election, with wards two and four both up together, followed a year later by wards one and three, and then the at-large council and mayoral seats. Each ward votes in two of the three years in the cycle, once for its ward seat, in the other year for the two positions voted at-large and one year with no election. The terms begin on January 1 of year after the November election.
Mayors Mayor Term Notes Daniel A. Currie (1842–1911)1896 He is claimed to be the first mayor of Englewood, New Jersey, but those before Elbert Adrain Brinckerhoff were declared void.Elbert Adrain Brinckerhoff (1838–1913) 1899 to May 1901He resigned. He was the first legal mayor of Englewood, New Jersey. He recommended an increase in the police force from seven police officers to nine, and the building of a city hall.J. C. Anderson 1901 May to 1901 December As acting mayor.Daniel A. Currie (1842–1911) 1902 to 1903Dan Fellows Platt (1873–1937)1904 to 1905He died on 16 December 1937.Donald Mackay 1906 to 1909James A. C. Johnson (1867–1937)1910 to 1911 JanuaryHe resigned to join the New Jersey Senate.Hezekiah Birtwhistle (?–1911) 1911 January to 1911 October As acting mayor. He died in office.William Conklin 1911 October to 1911 December He was the acting mayor.Vernon Monroe 1912 to 1915Clinton Hamlin Blake, Jr. (1883–?) 1915 to 1917David J. McKenna 1918 October to 1921 December Clarence Dillworth Kerr (?–1957) 1922 to 1923Colonel Harriot Van Devanter Moore (1879–1937) 1924 to 1925Douglas Gillespie Thomson, Sr. (1885–?) 1926 to 1929He acted as an intermediary during the Lindbergh kidnapping with Arthur W. Springer.Cornelius Porter Kitchel (1875–1947)1930 to 1933Irving S. Reeve1934 to 1935Charles B. Hayward (1877–1937)1936 to 1937 October He died in office.Robert Story Tipping (1887–?) 1937 October to 1939He was born on 4 May 1887.Clarence Ambrose Clough (1883–?) 1940 to 1941He married Ethel Kipp.Charles William Floyd Coffin (1888–1968) 1942 to 1945Donald Aubrey Quarles (1894–1959) 1946 to 1947Melvin Leslie Denning (1895–1986) 1948 to 1953 He made the first long-distance call from coast to coast using the new direct distance dialing system.1951: First Direct-Dial Transcontinental Telephone Call , AT&T. Accessed June 8, 2007. "Nov. 10, 1951: Mayor M. Leslie Downing of Englewood, N.J., picked up a telephone and dialed 10 digits. Eighteen seconds later, he reached Mayor Frank Osborne in Alameda, Calif. The mayors made history as they chatted in the first customer-dialed long-distance call, one that introduced area codes."Watson Gerald Clark, Jr.1954 to 1955Albert Moskin (1900–1994) 1956 to 1959Austin Volk (1918–2010)1960 to 1963Francis J. Donovan (?–1965)1964 to 1965 April He died in office.William J. Ticknor 1965 April to 1966As acting mayor.Austin Volk (1918–2010) 1966 to 1967Robert I. Miller (?–2009)1968 to 1969Ned Feldman 1970 to 1971Walter Taylor 1972 to 1975 First African-American mayorSondra J. Greenberg (1928–)1976 to 1982 Steven R. Rothman (1952–) 1983 to 1988Donald Aronson1989 to 1997In 1991 Wilson Pickett was arrested for making threats to Aronson.Paul T. Fader (1959–2017)1998 to 2003Michael Wildes (1964–)2004 to 2010Frank Huttle III2010 to 2018Michael Wildes (1964–)2019–present
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