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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.
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 .
The term New Newark came into existence in 1954, largely as a result of the recently elected Mayor Leo Carlin, who called together the CEOs of Newark's 18 largest corporations in an effort to stem the outward movement of companies to the suburbs. At first, the organization was composed exclusively of business leaders who met quarterly.
Dina Matos (born November 5, 1966 [1]) is a former First Lady of New Jersey.She served as first lady during the administration of her husband, Jim McGreevey.In advance of an expected lawsuit, Gov. McGreevey, with Matos at his side, revealed at an August 2004 press conference that he had had an affair with a man and was resigning from office.
The mayor said he was "appalled" to learn that those who were detained had been fingerprinted and had pictures of their IDs taken, and he accused ICE of violating the Fourth and 14th Amendment ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. immigration agents rounded up undocumented migrants as well as American citizens in a raid of a Newark, New Jersey, worksite on Thursday that the city's mayor said ...
After Addonizio was elected mayor of Newark in 1962, she became the executive secretary of the Newark Planning Board. In 1967, Addonizio appointed her to serve in his cabinet as director of the Newark Department of Health and Welfare, the first African American to serve as a department head in the city. [4]