Mayors of Teaneck, New Jersey
Mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey | |
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since July 1, 2016 | |
Inaugural holder | William W. Bennett |
Formation | 1895 |
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Teaneck, New Jersey was incorporated on February 19, 1895. It was created in Chapter XXXVII in the Acts of the General Assembly of the State of New Jersey in 1895.[1] The office of mayor did not initially exist as such. In 1895, the township form of government was a direct democracy,[2] with a three-member township council handling the affairs of the township between annual town meetings. The township council selected a chairman. Historian Griffin wrote that William W. Bennett "was the obvious (and unanimous) choice to serve as Teaneck's first township committee chairman, roughly the equivalent of mayor and manager combined."[3] New Jersey revised township organization in 1899, and in 1910 Teaneck moved to a five-man township council. By 1962, Teaneck had both a mayor and a deputy mayor.[4] The Mayors of Teaneck, New Jersey are as following:[4]
Mayors
Mayor | In office | Left office | Notes |
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Mohammed Hameeduddin | July 1, 2016 | Present | This was his second term. Mohammed Hameeduddin is the current Mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey. The Teaneck Town Council elected Hameeduddin as mayor on July 1, 2016, to fill the rest of the previous mayor's unexpired term. He was sworn into office the same day by Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey Steven Fulop.[5] Hameeduddin previously served as Teaneck mayor from 2010 to 2014.[5] |
Elie Y. Katz | April 24, 2016 | July 1, 2016 | This was their second term. They were filling in as acting mayor for Lizette Parker, who died in office. Katz was the Deputy Mayor at the time of Parker's death, assumed the role of acting mayor until a new mayor could be elected by the town council.[6] |
Lizette Parker | July 1, 2014 | April 24, 2016 | Lizette Parker (August 31, 1971 – April 24, 2016) was the first African-American woman to serve as mayor of any municipality in Bergen County, New Jersey. Parker died in office on April 24, 2016.[7] |
Mohammed Hameeduddin | July 1, 2010 | July 1, 2014 | This was his first term. Hameeduddin was the first Muslim mayor in Bergen County, New Jersey.[8] |
Kevie Feit | 2008 | July 1, 2010 | [9] |
Elie Y. Katz | 2006 | 2008 | This was their first term. |
Jacqueline Kates | 2002 | 2006 | |
Paul S. Ostrow | 1996 | 2002 | |
Peter Bower | 1994 | 1995 | |
John Abraham | 1992 | 1993 | Indian American who arrived in the United States in 1972 after working as a textile engineer in Tanzania.[10] He ran for the statehouse 37th District in 1997 and lost.[11] |
Eleanor Kieliszek | 1990 | 1992 | This was her second term. |
Francis Hall | 1898 | 1989 | This was their second term.[12] |
Bernard Brooks | July 1, 1982 | 1987 | |
Francis Hall | June 1978 | 1982 | This was their first term. |
Eleanor Kieliszek | 1974 | June 1978 | This was her first term. She was the first female Mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey and the first woman elected to the township council. Eleanor Manning Kieliszek (1925 – May 16, 2017) was also an elected member of the Teaneck Township Council for 30 years from 1970 until 2000.[13][14] |
Frank White Burr | 1970 | 1974 | Frank White Burr (January 7, 1906 – May 4, 1992) was the Mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey from 1970 to 1974. He was an advocate for the Glenpointe development at the intersection of the New Jersey Turnpike (a portion of Interstate 95) and Interstate 80. Burr was born in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey on January 7, 1906.[15] He attended Hasbrouck Heights High School.[16] He graduated New York University and New York University School of Law and spent his entire professional life working for Chase Manhattan Bank. Burr served as a trustee on the Teaneck Board of Education from 1955 to 1961 and was board president from 1956 to 1957. He was a member of the Township's Advisory Board on Community Relations from 1961 to 1967 and was its chairman when Teaneck became the first town in the nation where a white majority voluntarily voted for school integration.[15] He opposed the 1972 New Jersey $650‐million transportation bond issue because it did not restore the closed West Shore Line railroad.[17] He died on May 4, 1992 in Teaneck, New Jersey.[15] |
Thomas Costa | May 24, 1966 | 1969 | Thomas J. Costa (June 30, 1912 – April 1, 2003) was an American Republican Party politician who served two terms in the New Jersey General Assembly, as well serving as the Mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey and as a Bergen County Freeholder. |
Matthew Feldman | 1962 | January 1966 | Matthew Feldman (March 22, 1919 – April 11, 1994) resigned as mayor upon election to the New Jersey Senate.[18] |
August Hanniball, Jr. | June 1958 | 1962 | [19] |
Thomas J. E. Brown | 1956 | June 1958 | |
Henry Deissler | May 23, 1950 | 1955 | |
Clarence William Brett | May 28, 1946 | 1950 | |
Milton Gideon Votee | 1934 | 1946 | He was born in 1880. He served as mayor for 12 years. He was one of the organizers of the switch to a township manager form of government. In 1958, the township renamed its Central Park the Milton Votee Park. He worked at the Railway Express Agency from 1900 to 1951. He was secretary of the Bergen County Sewer Authority. He died died of a heart attack at Holy Name Hospital on August 9, 1961.[20] |
Karl Duany Van Wagner | 1931 | 1933 | |
Lacey Walker | 1930 | 1930 | |
Christian Gloeckler | 1927 | 1929 | |
William Harold Bodine, Sr. | 1925 | 1926 | This was his third term. |
Frederic Andreas | 1924 | 1924 | |
Frederick J. Griffith | 1921 | 1924 | [21] |
Maurice Veuve | 1918 | 1920 | |
William Harold Bodine, Sr. | 1917 | 1917 | This was his second term. |
Frederick McGuire | 1916 | 1916 | |
William Harold Bodine, Sr. | 1915 | 1915 | This was his first term. He was born on March 15, 1874 in Brooklyn, New York to William Nott Bodine (1846-1896) and Julia Ann Pereigo (1847-1928). |
Robert A. Shaw | 1912 | 1914 | |
James E. Pearce | 1910 | 1911 | |
William Weaver Bennett | February 19, 1895 | 1909 | William Weaver Bennett (February 4, 1841 – June 13, 1912) was the first mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey.[3] He was born in Derbyshire, England on February 4, 1841. When six months old, his parents came to America to live in Binghamton, New York, where the father died around 1853. He moved to Teaneck and built a series of row houses and then became the property manager for William Walter Phelps. He was the first Mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey from 1895 to 1909. Bennett died on June 13, 1912 in Teaneck, New Jersey at the age of 71. He was buried at Brookside Cemetery, Englewood. He served for 13. |
References
- ^ An act to create a new township in the county of Bergen to be called the Township of Teaneck - Public Laws 1895, chapter 37, page 886
- ^ "The Story of New Jersey's Civil boundaries" (PDF). nj.gov. Retrieved December 2, 2015.
- ^ a b Griffin, Robert D. "The Father of Teaneck: William Weaver Bennett". www.teaneck.org. Teaneck Public Library Online. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
- ^ a b "Mayors, Chairmen, and Council Members (1895 - 2016)". www.teaneck.org. Teaneck Public Library Online. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
- ^ a b Alfaro, Alyana (2016-07-01). "Hameeduddin Sworn in as New Teaneck Mayor". New York Observer. Archived from the original on 2016-08-11. Retrieved 2017-05-30.
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- ^ Ma, Myles (2016-03-29). "Lizette Parker, groundbreaking mayor of Teaneck, dies at 44". NJ.com. Retrieved 2016-04-24.
- ^ Ax, Joseph (6 July 2010). "Teaneck's diversity showcased in new council makeup". NorthJersey.com. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
- ^ Leichman, Abigail Klein (11 July 2008). "A Conversation with Kevie Feit". Jewish Standard. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
- ^ "Abraham Is New Mayor". The Teaneck Suburbanite. July 8, 1992.
- ^ "After Months of Running, Marathon Ends Tuesday". New York Times. November 2, 1997.
- ^ Garbarino, John (9 December 1991). "Getting To Know You". The Teaneck News. Teaneck Public Library Online. p. 3. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
- ^ Burrow, Megan (May 17, 2017). "Eleanor Kieliszek, Teaneck's First Female Mayor, Dies At 91". North Jersey Media Group. Retrieved 2017-06-14.
- ^ "Eleanor Kieliszek Makes History as First Woman Mayor". Teaneck News. Teaneck Public Library. 1974-07-12. Retrieved 2017-06-14.
- ^ a b c David Voreacos (May 5, 1992). "Frank Burr, Civic Leader, Former Mayor of Teaneck". The Bergen Record.
Former Mayor Frank W. Burr, who was long active in civic and church affairs and was a prime mover behind the town's largest development project, died Monday. He was 86.
- ^ Staff. "N. Y. U. Sophomore Wins Carnegie Scholarship; Annual MacDonald Oration prizes Awarded - University Debates Colgate on May 9.", The New York Times, May 4, 1925. Accessed October 30, 2017.
- ^ "New Jersey". New York Times. October 13, 1972.
- ^ "Matthew Feldman, 75, Mayor Of Teaneck and State Senator". New York Times. April 12, 1994.
- ^ "August Hanniball, Mayor of Teaneck". New York Times. February 25, 1959.
- ^ "Milton Gideon Votee Dies". New York Times. August 10, 1961.
- ^ Votee, Milton (6 February 1949). "F. J. Griffith Dies. Drug Executive, 69. Chairman of the Pennsylvania Co. began in field at 16". The New York Times.
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