Bloomfield, New Jersey was incorporated on March 23, 1812. It operates under a Special Charter granted under an Act of the New Jersey Legislature. The township is governed by a mayor and a six-member Township Council. The mayor and three councilmembers are elected at-large, and one member from each of three wards, with all positions chosen on a partisan basis as part of the November general election. Councilmembers are elected to three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with the three at-large seats (and the mayoral seat) up for election together and the three ward seats coming up for election two years later.[1] Bloomfield's charter, retains most of the characteristics of the Town form, with additional powers delegated to an administrator.[2] The mayors are:[3]

Mayors

  • Michael J. Venezia, 2014 to Present. He is a Democrat.[4]
  • Raymond J. McCarthy, 2007 to 2010.[4]
  • John I. Crecco, circa 1998.[5]
  • John W. Kinder, 1971–1985.
  • Donald H. Scott, 1950 to 1955.
  • Charles H. Demarest, 1925 to 1932.
  • Frederic R. Pilch, 1920 to 1924.[6]
  • Frederick Sadler, 1916 to 1919.
  • William Hauser (mayor), 1911 to 1912.
  • William P. Sutphen, 1907 to 1910.
  • George Fisher (mayor), 1905 to 1906.

References

  1. ↑ 2012 New Jersey Legislative District Data Book, Rutgers University Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, March 2013, p. 128.
  2. ↑ "Chapter V: Special Charters", New Jersey State Library. Accessed June 25, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Mayors of Bloomfield, New Jersey". Political Graveyard. Retrieved 2017-12-20.
  4. 1 2 "Bloomfield elects first new mayor in 12 years, East Orange mayoral candidate formally seals win". NJ.com. November 5, 2013. Retrieved 2014-07-31. Michael Venezia won a three-year term and will be the township's first new mayor in 12 years.
  5. ↑ Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey. 1998. ISBN 9781577410720. Assemblywoman Crecco is married to John I. Crecco, a deputy state athletic commissioner and former mayor of Bloomfield ...
  6. ↑ Cherrington, Ernest Hurst (1921). The Anti-saloon League Year Book. Frederic R. Pilch, Mayor of Bloomfield, N.J.
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