Mayor of Highland Park, New Jersey

Mayors of Highland Park, New Jersey:^[1][2]

Year	Mayor	Born/died	Notes
2010–present	Stephen B. Nolan		Democrat, elected to fill balance of Mayor Frank's third term.[3]
2000–2010	Meryl L. Frank		Democrat, served two full terms and one partial term; first female mayor;[3] resigned to become U.S. representative to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women[3]
1992–1999	H. James Polos		Democrat, served two terms
1988–1991	Jeff Ohrbach		Republican
1984–1987	Harold Berman (mayor)		Democrat, his second term
1980–1983	Charles W. Mulhollen		Democrat
1976–1979	Harold Berman (mayor)		Democrat, his first term
1972–1975	Gasper Paul Beck	(1916–1982)	Democrat, first four year term
1970–1971	Samuel J. Kronman		Democrat, returned to serve one term
1966–1969	Herbert M. Tanzman	(b. 1922)	Democrat, served two terms
1960–1965	Samuel J. Kronman		Democrat, served three terms
1956–1959	Luther H. Martin	(1889–1970)	Democrat, served two terms
1954–1955	William C. Campbell (mayor)	(1924–1984)	Democrat
1952–1953	Joseph C. DeCoster		Democrat
1948–1951	Alvah H. Cole	(1884–1970)	Republican, served two terms
1946–1947	George W. Miller (mayor)		Republican
1942–1945	Harold W. Drake		Republican, served two terms
1940–1941	Walter K. Wood
1938–1939	Russell B. Howell		Republican
1936–1937	Russell C. Smalley		Republican
1932–1935	Irving D. Buttler	(1895–1938)	Republican, served two terms
1930–1931	Richard T. Parker		Republican
1928–1929	Edwin W. Eden	(1887–1953)	Republican
1926–1927	Benjamin Erikson		Republican
1924–1925	George F. Leonard		Democrat
1922–1923	Cornelius B. McCrelis, Jr.	(1883–1964)	Republican
1920–1921	Robert Wood Johnson II	(1893–1968)	Republican
1916–1919	Russell E. Watson	(1885–1970)	Republican
1914–1915	George White (mayor)		Democrat
1908–1913	Lorenz Volkert	(d. 1919)	Republican, served three terms
1905–1907	James B. Archer	(1872–1912)	Democrat, served two terms. Archer was elected to become the first mayor in May 1905 after the Borough was incorporated on March 15, 1905

References

1. ^ "Mayors of Highland Park, New Jersey". Political Graveyard. http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/highlandpark.html. Retrieved 2011-09-30. "Robert Wood Johnson, Jr. 1920-22 Cornelius McCrelis 1922-24 Edwin W. Eden 1928-30 Alvah H. Cole 1948-51 Joseph C. DeCoster 1952-53 Meryl L. Frank 2007" 
2. ^ Kolva, Jeanne and Joanne Pisciotta, Highland Park; Borough of Homes. (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2005).
3. ^ ^{a b c} Johnson, Brent (January 21, 2010). "Former Democrats maintain grasp on Middlesex County". The Star-Ledger. http://www.nj.com/news/local/index.ssf/2010/11/voters_in_middlesex_county_gen.html.