Mayors of Newark, New Jersey

This is a list of mayors of Newark, New Jersey:

1. 1836–1837: William Halsey William Halsey was the first mayor of Newark, New Jersey.
2. 1837–1838: Theodore Frelinghuysen (1787–1862)
3. 1838–1840: James Miller
4. 1840–1841: Oliver Spencer Halstead
5. 1841–1843: William Wright (1794–1866)
6. 1844–1845: Stephen Dod
7. 1845–1846: Isaac Baldwin
8. 1846–1848: Beach Vanderpool
9. 1848–1851: James Miller
10. 1851–1854: James M. Quinby
11. 1854–1857: Horace J. Poinier
12. 1857–1864: Moses Bigelow
13. 1864–1866: Theodore Runyon
14. 1866–1870: Thomas Baldwin Peddie (1808–1889)
15. 1870–1874: Frederick W. Ricord
16. 1874–1876: Nehemiah Perry (1816–1881)
17. 1876–1880: Henry J. Yates
18. 1880–1882: William Henry Frederick Fiedler (1847–1919)
19. 1882–1884: Henry Lang
20. 1884–1894: Joseph E. Haynes
21. 1894–1896: Julius A. Lebkuecher
22. 1896–1903: James M. Seymour, Sr.
23. 1903–1907: Henry Meade Doremus
24. 1907–1915: Jacob Haussling
25. 1915–1917: Thomas Lynch Raymond (1st term)
26. 1917–1921: Charles P. Gillen (1876–1956)
27. 1921–1922: Alexander Archibald
28. 1922–1925: Frederick C. Breidenbach (1876–1955)
29. 1925–1928: Thomas Lynch Raymond (2nd term)
30. 1928–1933: Jerome T. Congleton (1876–1936)
31. 1933–1941: Meyer C. Ellenstein (1885–1963)
32. 1941–1949: Vincent J. Murphy (1893–1976)
33. 1949–1953: Ralph A. Villani (1901–1974)
34. 1953–1962: Leo P. Carlin (1908–1999)
35. 1962–1970: Hugh Joseph Addonizio (1914–1981)
36. 1970–1986: Kenneth A. Gibson (born 1932) Kenneth A. Gibson was the first African American mayor of Newark, New Jersey.
37. 1986–2006: Sharpe James (born 1936)
38. 2006— : Cory Booker (born 1969)

See also

• List of elected officials in Newark, New Jersey