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A member of the Democratic Party, Baraka is the 40th and current mayor of Newark, New Jersey. First elected in the 2014 election, he was sworn into office on May 13, 2014, [5] and was reelected in 2018 and 2022. Prior to his election as mayor, he served on the Municipal Council of Newark and as principal of the city's Central High School. [6]
The mayor of Newark is the head of the executive branch of government of Newark, New Jersey, United States.The mayor has the duty to enforce the municipal charter and ordinances; prepare the annual budget; appoint deputy mayors, department heads, and aides; and approve or veto ordinances passed by the Municipal Council.
On January 30, 1986, James announced he would run for Mayor of Newark to challenge four-term incumbent Kenneth A. Gibson. [7] James won the May 13 election and was sworn into office on July 1 of that year. He was the first Newark mayor to run unopposed when he sought re-election in 1990 and handily won re-election in 1994 and 1998.
In May 2009, Booker received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from the Newark-based New Jersey Institute of Technology for "his outstanding career in public service as the Mayor of Newark." [183] In May 2009, he received an honorary doctorate from Brandeis University and was a commencement speaker that year. [184]
The mayor of Newark, N.J. slammed the “egregious” raid by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who, he says, raided a local establishment and detained undocumented ...
Jeff Hall became Newark's first four-term mayor and Democrat Bill Cost edged Republican Spencer Barker for the final spot in council at-large race.
Kenneth Allen Gibson (May 15, 1932 – March 29, 2019) was an American politician of the Democratic Party who was the 36th mayor of Newark, New Jersey from 1970 to 1986. He was the first African American mayor of a major city in the Northeastern United States.
He became acting mayor on October 31, 2013, and was sworn in on November 4, 2013, assuming the unexpired term of Booker, [22] which ended on June 30, 2014. He is the first Latino mayor of Newark, the total population of which is one-third Latino [23] and 13% Puerto Rican. [24]