List of Monmouth County Freeholder directors
Directors of the Board of Chosen Freeholders (1798–present)

List of Monmouth County Freeholder directors

Section Title: Directors of the Board of Chosen Freeholders (1798–present)
Table Section Text: None

#	Name	Term	Party	Notes

1	Captain Theophilus Little	1798–1804	Shrewsbury. (February 15, 1744 - February 19, 1825) He served in the Revolutionary War.

2	James Allen (freeholder)	1804–1805	Howell

3	William Lloyd	1805–1808	Federalist	Freehold

4	Robert Evelman	1808–1810	Shrewsbury

5	John P. Conover	1810–1811	Freehold

6	Garret P. Wikoff	1811–1819	Federalist	Upper Freehold. Of Dutch descent, Wikoff was a resident of Upper Freehold Township, New Jersey.

7	William I. Conover	1819–1822	Democratic-Republican	Freehold

8	John J. Ely	1822–1835	National Republican	Freehold. (April 7, 1778 – January 11, 1852) was elected sheriff in 1817, during the Era of Good Feelings, as a Democratic Republican, Ely served three, one-year terms, the constitutional term limit at the time.

9	John I. Conover	1835–1844	Democratic	Freehold

10	Elisha Lippincott	1844–1848	Whig	Shrewsbury

11	Benjamin I. Lafetra	1848–1851	Democratic	Howell

12	James Patterson	1851–1855	Democratic	Middletown

13	Henry Howland	1855–1857	Democratic	Ocean

14	Thomas H. Lafetra	1857–1860	Democratic	Wall

15	Charles Butcher	1860–1872	Democratic	Howell

16	William H. Bennett	1872–1873	Democratic	Ocean

17	Austin H. Patterson	1873–1875	Democratic	Howell. Patterson was born in Monmouth County and was a builder in Blue Ball, now Adelphia, Howell Township.

18	John T. Haight	1875–1881	Democratic	Atlantic

19	Charles H. Boud	1881–1882	Democratic	Howell

20	John C. Hathaway	1882–1884	Democratic	Neptune

21	Theodore Fields	1884–1887	Democratic	Wall. He served from 1887 to 1890.

22	John Henry Heyer	1887–1898	Democratic	Holmdel

23	John Guire	1898–1906	Democratic	Ocean; Ward No. 2, Long Branch

24	William B. Conover	1907–1910	Republican	At-large

25	John Minton Corlies	1911–1916	Democratic	At-large. (October 30, 1868 - March 8, 1926) He was born in Middletown Township.

26	Charles M. Wyckoff	1917–1918	Democratic	At-large

27	William M. Bergen	1919–1920	Republican	At-large

28	Bryant B. Newcomb	1921–1933	Republican	At-large.

29	Frederic Patrick Reichey	1934–1935	Democratic	At-large. (March 25, 1895 - March 3, 1978) He was born on March 25, 1895 in Belmar, New Jersey.

30	Raymond L. Wyckoff	1936–1938	Republican	At-large.

31	Joseph Mayer	1938–1942	Republican	At-large

32	Edgar O. Murphy	1942–1947	Republican	At-large

33	James S. Parkes	1948–1950	Republican	At-large

34	Joseph C. Irwin	1951–1974	Republican	At-large

35	Philip N. Gumbs	1975–1976	Democratic	At-large. Philip N.

36	Ray Kramer	1976	Democratic	At-large

37	Harry Larrison, Jr.	1977–1978	Republican	At-large.

Ray Kramer	1979–1980	Democratic	At-large

Harry Larrison, Jr.	1981–1983	Republican	At-large.

38	Thomas J. Lynch, Jr.	1984–1985	Democratic	At-large.

Harry Larrison, Jr.	1986–2004	Republican	At-large.

39	Thomas J. Powers	2005	Republican	At-large.

40	William C. Barham	2006–2007	Republican	At-large.

41	Lillian G. Burry	2008	Republican	At-large. Lillian G. Burry was the first female Director of the Monmouth County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders.

42	Barbara J. McMorrow	2009	Democratic	At-large.

Lillian G. Burry	2010	Republican	At-large.

43	Robert D. Clifton	2011	Republican	At-large.

44	John P. Curley	2012	Republican	At-large.

45	Thomas A. Arnone	2013	Republican	At-large.

Lillian G. Burry	2014	Republican	At-large.

46	Gary J. Rich, Sr.	2015	Republican	At-large.

Sentence(s)

John J. Ely served as Director of the Board of Chosen Freeholders of the Monmouth County from 1822 until 1835.
John J. Ely was the Director of the Monmouth County, Board of Chosen Freeholders from 1822 until 1835.
John J. Ely was the Director of the Monmouth County, Board of Chosen Freeholders, served from 1822 until 1835.

final_sentence: John J. Ely served as Director of the Board of Chosen Freeholders of the Monmouth County from 1822 until 1835.
final_sentence: John J. Ely was the Director of the Monmouth County, Board of Chosen Freeholders from 1822 until 1835.
final_sentence: John J. Ely was the Director of the Monmouth County, Board of Chosen Freeholders, served from 1822 until 1835.