Mayor of Long Branch, New Jersey


The Mayor of Long Branch, New Jersey is the chief administrative officer of that jurisdiction.
What is now Long Branch, New Jersey was split off from Shrewsbury, New Jersey in 1849 to becoming of Ocean Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey. On April 11, 1867, it became the Long Branch Commission with limited jurisdiction by three commissioners.
The city was incorporated by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 29, 1904 replacing the Long Branch Commission. When on May 20, 1904, the city council adopted the Coult Charter as the new form of government, based on the results of a referendum on May 17, 1904, approved by voters. It was officially an independent city.
On November 7, 1960, the voters again changed the form of government from Commissioners to Manager-Council. While the council was still elected by the citizens, the mayor was selected by the nine-man council. As of 1966, enacted by direct petition, the city is now governed under the Mayor-Council form of municipal government, the Faulkner Act,. The government of consists of a Mayor and a five-member City Council, whose members are elected at-large in nonpartisan elections to serve four-year terms of office on a concurrent basis. Elections are non-partisan elections, and party affiliations of candidates are not mentioned on the ballots. The elections are held in May, and the Inauguration of the new government takes place July 1 of the election year. As of July 1, 2018, the current Mayor is John Pallone, the brother of U.S. Representative Frank Pallone.

Mayors

MayorBirth and deathTermNotes---
John Pallone 2018 to presentHe was elected over incumbent Mayor Adam Schneider winning over 60% of the vote on May 8, 2018. His first term as Mayor ends in 2022. He was sworn in on July 1, 2018 by Governor Phil Murphy. He ran on Schneider's team for City Council in 1990 and then ran against him for Mayor in 1994. In that election, he lost by around 500 votes. Pallone ran for City Council again in 2010 narrowly winning a seat in a crowded field of candidates. He then won re-election on Schneider’s ticket in 2014, and decided to run against him again in 2018; this time almost doubling what Schneider garnered in the final results.---
Adam Schneider1990 to 2018He was first elected in 1990 over former Mayor Skip Cioffi after being elected to fill in the open seat on the City Council left by Frank Pallone in a special election in 1988. His seventh and final term ended on June 30, 2018.---
Philip D. Huhn1982 to 1990---
Henry R. "Skip" Cioffi1970 to 1982---
Vincent J. Mazza1965 to 1970He was appointed in 1965. In 1966 Long Branch switched from the council–manager government to the mayor-council government. This was the second time in five years that Long Branch switched its form of government.---
Milton Ferdinand Untermeyer Jr.1963 to 1965He served on the commission that recommended that Long Branch change to a new government system.---
Thomas L. McClintock1961 to 1963He also served as the Mayor of Colts Neck, New Jersey. He appears to be the only person to have served as mayor of two different municipalities in Monmouth County, New Jersey. He served in the positions 12 years apart. Long Branch adopts a council–manager government.---
Paul Kiernan1958 to 1961---
Daniel Joseph Maher1955 to 1958---
Alexander Vineburg1953 to 1955---
J. William Jones1948 to 1953 This was his second term.---
Paul Kiernan1944 to 1948This is his first term. He became mayor on May 9, 1944. He also served as the Sheriff of Monmouth County, New Jersey.---
Alton Verran Evans1933 to 1944He became mayor for his second consecutive term on May 12, 1936. He was born on August 8, 1904 in Larchmont, New York to Lillian and Moses E. Evans. He attended Swarthmore College and in 1928 he graduated from New York Law School. He was admitted to the New Jersey Bar Association in 1929. He married Getrude M. Hunt on June 24, 1931. He was a member of the District Court of the County of Monmouth, New Jersey from 1943 to 1948. He was the presiding judge on the same court from 1948 to 1965. He served on the New Jersey Superior Court from 1972 to 1974. =Prominent Families of New Jersey |title=Alton Verran Evans |year= |publisher= |page= |quote= | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qG_5K_s3a-gC&pg=PA434#v=onepage&q&f=false
Charles Dorman McFaddin		1932 to 1936He became mayor in 1932.
J. William Jones1928 to 1932This was his first term. He was born in Long Branch and became mayor in 1928. He also served as the commissioner of parks and public property.---
Frank Leslie Howland1924 to 1928He became mayor in 1924.---
Clarence James Housman1920 to 1924He became mayor in 1920. There was an attempt to recall him as mayor. He died on November 14, 1932.---
John Walter Flock Sr.1918 to 1920He became mayor in May 1918. He was born in Allentown, New Jersey on July 30, 1873. He died on December 7, 1952 in Oceanport, New Jersey.---
Marshall Woolley1916 to 1918He became mayor on May 9, 1916.---
Bryant Baxter Newcomb1912 to 1916He became mayor on May 7, 1912. He also served on the Board of Chosen Freeholders for Monmouth County. He died on February 1, 1945 at Monmouth Memorial Hospital after being struck by a taxicab.---
Henry Joline1912Henry Joline was the city council president and was briefly acting mayor in the absence of Edwin Washington Packer from February 1912. Packer resigned as mayor on April 9, 1912 and Joline's role as acting mayor ended with the appointment of Bryant Baxter Newcomb in May.---
Edwin Washington Packer1910 to 1912He became mayor in November 1910. Packer left on vacation in February 1912 and during his absence was charged with corruption. His whereabouts were unknown for some time after his due date of return. Upon his reappearance, he pleaded non vult, was fined 500 and resigned as mayor on April 9, 1912. He died on May 18, 1926.---
Charles O. McFaddin1906 to 1910He became mayor on November 6, 1906. He was born on September 25, 1859 in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. He married Emma Price of Oceanport, New Jersey and was the father of future mayor Charles Dorman McFaddin. McFaddin was twice president of the Long Branch Chamber of Commerce. He was the superintendent of freight and passenger rates for the New York and Long Branch Railroad. He also served as a Long Branch city commissioner. He died on February 25, 1920 in Long Branch of heart failure.---
Charles Asa Francis1903 to 1906He was the first mayor under the reincorporation of Long Branch as a city on April 8, 1903. He was born on October 28, 1855 in Ardena, New Jersey. He died on April 18, 1934 in Long Branch, New Jersey.---
Walter S. Reed1901 to 1903He became mayor on February 22, 1901. He was a physician.---
Benjamin Morris1900 to 1901His term ended on February 22, 1901.---
Augustus Chandler1899 to 1900He was born in March 1849 in New Jersey and he died on June 19, 1922 in Long Branch, New Jersey.---
Rufus Blodgett1894 to 1898This was his first term. He served seven terms as mayor. He also served as the superintendent of the New York & Long Branch Railroad for 25 years.---
George W. Brown1890 to 1893This was his second term.---
Thomas Ridge Wooley1886 to 1887This was his second term. He was elected on September 13, 1886.---
Wilbur Arthur Heisley1887 to 1890His biography states that he was elected in 1886. Thomas Ridge Wooley also appears in this time slot in an account in the New York Times.---
George W. Brown1884 to 1886This was his first term.---
Richard Woodward1883 to 1884---
Thomas Ridge Wooley1879 to 1883This was his first term. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 10, 1841 to Jordan Woolley. Jordan Woolley was the Sheriff of Monmouth County, New Jersey and Coroner of Monmouth County, New Jersey and a Monmouth County Freeholder. The family moved to Long Branch in 1862 and Thomas was appointed under sheriff of Monmouth County, serving three years with his father as the sheriff, and two years with his successor, William B. Sutphen.---
Joseph E. Cooper1867 to 1879Joseph E. Cooper was the first Mayor of Long Branch, New Jersey. Long Branch was incorporated on April 11, 1867 with a commission form of government.---

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