Tenafly Mayors, 1894 - 2022

Tenafly Mayors, 1894 - 2022

Listing of Tenafly Mayors 1894-1967(including their political parties) compiled by Borough Historian, Virginia Mosley. Listing of Mayors 1894-2022 complied by Aki Benjamin.

Virginia Mosley

1894-2022

Aki Benjamin

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Tenafly Mayors

1 H. B. Palmer* Mar. 1894 - Mar. 1895
2 R Thomas L James** Mar. 1895 - Mar. 1897
3 R H. B. Palmer Mar. 1897 - Mar. 1899
4 R Charles P. Buckley (Pres.) Mar. 1899 - Mar. 1903 (2 terms) (party A. Benjamin)
5 D John Osterman Jr.*** Mar. 1903 - Jan. 1906 (2 terms)
6 R Charles P. Buckley (Pres.) 1906 - 1907 (party A. Benjamin)
7 D John Osterman Jr. 1908 - 1909
8 R William P. Eager 1910 - 1911
9 R Frederick L. Colver (Pres.) 1912 - 1913
10 D Byron Huyler (Pres.) 1914 - 1915
11 R James Westervelt 1916 - 1917 (party A. Benjamin)
12 D E. Stanley Clarke (Pres.) 1918 - 1921 (2 terms)
13 D Charles Walden Jr. (Epis.) 1922 - 1923
14 R Sylvester G. Farnham (Pres.) 1924 - 1927 (2 terms)
15 R Guy G. Foster (Epis.) 1928 - 1931 (2 terms)
16 R Richard DeMott (Pres.) 1932 - 1933
17 R Edward Coleman 1934 - 1935 (party A. Benjamin)
18 R Amos Kidder (Pres.) 1936 - 1939 (2 terms) (party A. Benjamin)
19 R Robert H. Gasch (Pres.) 1940 - 1941
20 R Robert J. Iderstine J. 1942 - 1945 (2 terms)
21 R Emerson Church**** (Pres.) 1946 - 1947
22 R E. Merrill Seaberg (Pres.) 1948 - 1951 (2 terms)
23 R Stanley Cattelle (Pres.) 1952 - 1953
24 R Clifton Fleet (Pres.) 1954 - 1957 (2 terms)
25 R Howard W. Booth (Pres.) 1958 - 1961 (2 terms)
26 R Willard B. Knowlton (Epis.) 1962 - 1963
27 R Robert E. Shull (Pres.) 1964 - 1967 (2 terms)

*Ran on Citizen’s Ticket and People’s Ticket. 2 Terms 1st for 1 month then re-elected for 1 year
** Thomas L. James 161 votes and H. B. Palmer, Citizens Party, 107 votes
*** Born in Germany
**** Was a Democrat when moving to Tenafly and after leaving Tenafly.

R = Republican D = Democrat
Pres. = Presbyterian Epis. = Episcopalian

Viginia Mosley original list documents Mayors from 1895 to 1967.


Additional listing compiled by Aki Benjamin July 2021

28 R Robert V. Bollerman 1968 - 1969
29 R Walter Hartung 1970 - 1975
30 R John Manos 1976 - 1979
31 R Richard Van Nostrand 1979 - 1991
32 R Wlater Hemberger 1991 - 1995
33 D Ann Moscovitz 1996 - 2003
34 I Peter Rustin 2004 - 2018
35 D Mark Zinna 2020 - Present

R = Republican D = Democrat I = Independent

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