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.[1] [2] 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.[3] [4]
| 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.[5] |
| Elbert Adrain Brinckerhoff (1838–1913) | 1899 to May 1901 | He resigned. He was the first legal mayor of Englewood, New Jersey.[6] [7] He recommended an increase in the police force from seven police officers to nine, and the building of a city hall.[8] |
| 1901 May to 1901 December | As acting mayor. | |
| Daniel A. Currie (1842–1911) | 1902 to 1903 | |
| Dan Fellows Platt (1873–1937) | 1904 to 1905 | He died on 16 December 1937.[9] |
| 1906 to 1909 | ||
| James A. C. Johnson (1867–1937) | 1910 to 1911 January | He resigned to join the New Jersey Senate.[10] |
| Hezekiah Birtwhistle (?–1911) | 1911 January to 1911 October | As acting mayor. He died in office. |
| 1911 October to 1911 December | He was the acting mayor. | |
| 1912 to 1915 | ||
| Clinton Hamlin Blake, Jr. (1883–?) | 1915 to 1917 | [11] |
| 1918 October to 1921 December | [12] | |
| Clarence Dillworth Kerr (?–1957) | 1922 to 1923 | [13] |
| Colonel Harriot Van Devanter Moore (1879–1937) | 1924 to 1925 | [14] |
| Douglas Gillespie Thomson, Sr. (1885–?) | 1926 to 1929 | He acted as an intermediary during the Lindbergh kidnapping with Arthur W. Springer.[15] |
| Cornelius Porter Kitchel (1875–1947) | 1930 to 1933 | [16] |
| Irving S. Reeve | 1934 to 1935 | |
| Charles B. Hayward (1877–1937) | 1936 to 1937 October | He died in office.[17] |
| Robert Story Tipping (1887–?) | 1937 October to 1939 | He was born on 4 May 1887.[18] |
| Clarence Ambrose Clough (1883–?) | 1940 to 1941 | He married Ethel Kipp. |
| Charles William Floyd Coffin (1888–1968) | 1942 to 1945 | [19] |
| Donald Aubrey Quarles (1894–1959) | 1946 to 1947 | [20] |
| Melvin 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.[21] |
| Watson Gerald Clark, Jr. | 1954 to 1955 | [22] |
| Albert Moskin (1900–1994) | 1956 to 1959 | [23] |
| Austin Volk (1918–2010) | 1960 to 1963 | |
| Francis J. Donovan (?–1965) | 1964 to 1965 April | He died in office. |
| 1965 April to 1966 | As acting mayor. | |
| Austin Volk (1918–2010) | 1966 to 1967 | [24] [25] |
| Robert I. Miller (?–2009) | 1968 to 1969 | |
| 1970 to 1971 | ||
| 1972 to 1975 | First African-American mayor | |
| Sondra J. Greenberg (1928–) | 1976 to 1982 | |
| Steven R. Rothman (1952–) | 1983 to 1988 | |
| Donald Aronson | 1989 to 1997 | In 1991 Wilson Pickett was arrested for making threats to Aronson.[26] |
| Paul T. Fader (1959–2017) | 1998 to 2003 | |
| Michael Wildes (1964–) | 2004 to 2010 | |
| Frank Huttle III | 2010 to 2018 | [27] |
| Michael Wildes (1964–) | 2019–present |