Beach Vanderpool | |
Office: | 8th Mayor of Newark |
Term Start: | 1846 |
Term End: | 1848 |
Predecessor: | Isaac Baldwin |
Successor: | James Miller |
Birth Date: | 25 October 1808[1] |
Birth Place: | New Jersey |
Death Place: | Newark, New Jersey |
Party: | Whig |
Beach Vanderpool (October 25, 1808 – March 12, 1884) was an American politician who served as the Mayor of Newark from 1846 to 1848.[2]
Vanderpool was a member of a prominent family in Newark. He was one of the founders of the Morris and Essex Railroad and was a major shareholder at the time of his death. He was also the president of the Howard Savings Bank and Commissioner of the Morris Plains Lunatic Asylum.[3] One of his sons, Eugene Vanderpool (1844–1903), was president of the Newark Gas Light Company.[4]