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Mayor of Orange, New Jersey facts for kids

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Orange, New Jersey is governed within the Faulkner Act, formally known as the Optional Municipal Charter Law, under the Mayor-Council form of municipal government, with a directly elected mayor and a City Council consisting of four ward representatives and three at-large representatives. Councilmembers are elected to serve four-year terms of office in non-partisan elections on a staggered basis with the four ward seats and the three at-large seats coming up for election on an alternating cycle every two years.

Mayors

  • Dwayne D. Warren, 2012 to Present
  • Eldridge Hawkins Jr. 2008 to 2012
  • Mims Hackett 1996 to 2008
  • Robert L. Brown 1988 to 1996, the city's first African-American mayor
  • Paul Monacelli (1984-88).
  • Joel L. Shain (1980-84)
  • Russell A. Riley
  • Joseph Promollo
  • William Howe Davis, 1942 to 1954.
  • Ovid C. Bianchi (July 1, 1938 - June 30, 1942).
  • Daniel Francis Minahan .
  • Arthur Browne Seymour, 1908 to 1912
  • George Huntington Hartford, 1878 to 1890.
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