Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey
Mayors
Table:
#	Mayor	Term start	Term end

1	Dudley Sanford Gregory	April 1838	April 1840	Whig

2	Peter McMartin	April 1840	April 1841	Unknown

3	Dudley Sanford Gregory	April 1841	April 1842	Whig

4	Thomas A. Alexander	April 1842	April 1843	Unknown

5	Peter Bentley	April 1843	April 1844	Democratic

6	Phineas Cook Dummer	April 1844	April 20 , 1848	Whig

7	Henry Taylor	April 21 , 1848	April 18 , 1850	Whig

8	Robert Gilchrist	April 19 , 1850	May 2 , 1852	Whig

9	David Stout Manners	May 3 , 1852	May 3 , 1857	Whig

10	Samuel Wescott	May 4 , 1857	May 2 , 1858	Democratic

11	Dudley Sanford Gregory	May 3 , 1858	May 6 , 1860	Republican

12	Cornelius Van Vorst	May 7 , 1860	May 4 , 1862	Democratic

13	John B. Romar	May 5 , 1861	May 1 , 1864	Democratic

14	Orestes Cleveland	May 2 , 1864	May 5 , 1867	Democratic

15	James Gopsill	May 6 , 1867	May 3 , 1868	Republican

16	Charles H. O'Neill	May 4 , 1868	April 10 , 1869	Democratic

17	William Clarke	April 11 , 1869	May 1 , 1870	Democratic

18	Charles H. O'Neill	May 2 , 1870	May 3 , 1874	Democratic

19	Henry Traphagen	May 4 , 1874	April 30 , 1876	Democratic

20	Charles Siedler	May 1 , 1876	May 5 , 1878	Republican

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Dudley Sanford Gregory ( February 5 , 1800 - December 8 , 1874 ) was the first Mayor of Jersey City , New Jersey , and was elected as a Whig to represent New Jersey 's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1847 to 1849 .
The Whig Party was a political party active in the middle of the 19th century in the United States of America . Alongside the Democratic Party , it was one of the two major parties in the United States during the late 1830s , the 1840s , and the early 1850s , part of the Second Party System . Four U.S. presidents were affiliated with the Whig party for at least part of their respective terms . Other influential party leaders include Henry Clay , Daniel Webster , William Seward , John J. Crittenden , and Truman Smith . The Whigs emerged in the 1830s in opposition to President Andrew Jackson , pulling together former members of the National Republican Party , the Anti-Masonic Party , and disaffected Democrats . The Whigs had some links to the defunct Federalist Party , but the Whig Party was not a direct successor to that party and many Whig leaders , including Clay , had aligned with the rival Democratic-Republican Party . In the 1836 presidential election , four different Whig candidates received electoral votes , but the party failed to defeat Jackson 's chosen successor , Martin Van Buren . Whig nominee William Henry Harrison unseated Van Buren in the 1840 presidential election , but died just one month into his term . Harrison 's successor , John Tyler , was expelled from the party in 1841 after clashing with Clay and other Whig Party leaders over economic policies such as the re-establishment of a national bank . Clay won his party 's nomination in the 1844 presidential election but was defeated by Democrat James K. Polk , who subsequently presided over the Mexican-American War . Whig nominee Zachary Taylor won the 1848 presidential election , but Taylor died in 1850 and was succeeded by Millard Fillmore . Fillmore , Clay , Daniel Webster , and Democrat Stephen A. Douglas led the passage of the Compromise of 1850 , which helped to defuse sectional tensions in the aftermath of the Mexican-American War .
Peter McMartin ( born May 11 , 1805 ) was the second Mayor of Jersey City , New Jersey .
Thomas A. Alexander ( 1800 - March 29 , 1866 ) was the fourth mayor of Jersey City in New Jersey . He succeeded Dudley S. Gregory . He served a single one-year term from April 1842 to April 1843 . He was succeeded by Peter Bentley , Sr .
Peter Bentley , Sr. ( 1805 - September 26 , 1875 ) was the fifth mayor of Jersey City in New Jersey . He succeeded Thomas A. Alexander . He served a single one-year term from April 1843 to April 1844 . He was succeeded by Phineas C. Dummer .
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States , along with its main rival , the Republican Party . Tracing its heritage back to Thomas Jefferson and James Madison 's Democratic-Republican Party , the modern-day Democratic Party was founded around 1828 by supporters of Andrew Jackson , making it the world 's oldest active political party . In its early years , the Party supported limited government , state sovereignty and opposed banks and the abolition of slavery . Since Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal coalition in the 1930s , the Democratic Party has promoted a social liberal platform . Well into the 20th century , the party had conservative pro-business and Southern conservative-populist wings ; following the New Deal , however , the conservative wing of the party largely withered outside the South . The New Deal Coalition of 1932-1964 attracted strong support from voters of recent European extraction - many of whom were Catholics based in the cities . After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 , the core bases of the two parties shifted , with the Southern states becoming more reliably Republican in presidential politics and the Northeastern states becoming more reliably Democratic . The once-powerful labor union element became smaller and less supportive after the 1970s . White evangelicals and Southerners have become heavily Republican at the state and local levels since the 1990s . People living in urban areas , women , college graduates , sexual and gender minorities , millennials , and black , Latino , Jewish , Muslim and Asian Americans tend to support the Democratic Party . The Democratic Party 's philosophy of modern liberalism advocates social and economic equality , along with the welfare state . It seeks to provide government regulation in the economy .
Phineas Cook Dummer ( October 28 , 1797 - September 14 , 1875 ) was the sixth mayor of Jersey City in New Jersey . He succeeded Peter Bentley , Sr. A Whig politician , he served four one-year terms from April 1844 to April 20 , 1848 . He was succeeded by Henry C. Taylor .
Henry C. Taylor ( c. 1814 - March 30 , 1889 ) was the seventh mayor of Jersey City in New Jersey .
Robert Gilchrist was the eighth mayor of Jersey City in New Jersey . Born around 1790 , Gilchrist became the president of the Jersey Board of Selectmen from 1835 to 1836 . He succeeded Henry C. Taylor as mayor . He served two years from April 19 , 1850 to May 2 , 1852 . He was succeeded by David S. Manners . Gilchrist was the Clerk of Hudson County from 1840 to 1865 . His son Robert Jr. became the Attorney General of New Jersey and served from 1870 to 1875 .
David Stout Manners ( January 12 , 1808 - August 19 , 1884 ) was the ninth Mayor of Jersey City . He succeeded Robert Gilchrist . A Whig politician , he served five one-year terms from May 3 , 1852 to May 3 , 1857 . He was succeeded by Samuel Wescott .
Samuel Wescott was the tenth Mayor of Jersey City . He succeeded David Stout Manners . Wescott served a single term from May 4 , 1857 to May 2 , 1858 . He was succeeded by Dudley S. Gregory . Wescott served in the New Jersey State Senate from 1860 to 1862 . Wescott incorporated the Mutual Benefit Life and Insurance Company of the County of Hudson in 1860 . His partners included Dudley S. Gregory , John Van Vorst , Edmund Kingsland , Garret Sip , John M. Cornelison , Hery F. Cox , Peter Bentley , Augustus A. Hardenburgh , and Jonathan D. Miller . Wescott donated land in Cannelton ( now Darlington ) , Pennsylvania for the construction of St. Rose Catholic Church c. 1861
The Republican Party , also referred to as the GOP ( Grand Old Party ) , is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States ; the other is its historic rival , the Democratic Party . The GOP was founded in 1854 by opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act , which allowed for the potential expansion of slavery into certain U.S. territories . The party supported classical liberalism , opposed the expansion of slavery , and supported economic reform . Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican president . Under the leadership of Lincoln and a Republican Congress , slavery was banned in the United States in 1865 . The Party was generally dominant during the Third Party System and the Fourth Party System . After 1912 , the Party underwent an ideological shift to the right . Following the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 , the party 's core base shifted , with Southern states becoming more reliably Republican in presidential politics . The party 's 21st-century base of support includes people living in rural areas , men , people without college degrees , the elderly , white Americans , and evangelical Christians . The 21st-century Republican Party ideology is American conservatism , which incorporates both economic policies and social values . The GOP supports lower taxes , free market capitalism , restrictions on immigration , increased military spending , gun rights , restrictions on abortion , deregulation and restrictions on labor unions . After the Supreme Court 's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade , the Republican Party opposed abortion in its party platform and grew its support among evangelicals .
Cornelius Van Vorst ( March 7 , 1822 - November 19 , 1906 ) was the twelfth Mayor of Jersey City , serving from 1860 to 1862 . He was the namesake and eighth generation descendant of the 17th century Superintendent of the Pavonia Colony .
John B. Romar was the thirteenth Mayor of Jersey City . He succeeded Cornelius Van Vorst . Romar served from May 5 , 1862 to May 1 , 1864 . He was succeeded by Orestes Cleveland .
Orestes Cleveland , Sr. ( March 2 , 1829 - March 30 , 1896 ) was an American manufacturer and Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey 's 5th congressional district from 1869 to 1871 , and served two separate stints as Mayor of Jersey City .
James Gopsill ( July 22 , 1823 - July 26 , 1884 ) was the fifteenth Mayor of Jersey City from May 6 , 1867 to May 3 , 1868 .
Charles H. O'Neill ( May 1800 - November 8 , 1897 ) was an Irish-American politician and a Democrat who served as Mayor of Jersey City , New Jersey , from May 4 , 1868 until April 10 , 1869 , when he resigned , and again from May 2 , 1870 until May 3 , 1874 . He was born in May 1880 in Paterson , New Jersey , working as a shoemaker , in the timber , coal and building material trades and serving as alderman before moving to Jersey City to set up business there . He was first elected as mayor in 1868 , but resigned less than a year later . William Clarke was appointed to fill his unexpired term . O'Neill was elected again in 1870 and re-elected in 1872 . After his second term , he was succeeded by Democrat Henry Traphagen . O'Neill died of cirrhosis of the liver in his home in Jersey City on November 8 , 1897 .
William Clarke was the seventeenth Mayor of Jersey City , New Jersey . He succeeded Charles H. O'Neill . Clarke served from April , 1869 to May 1 , 1870 . He was succeeded by Charles H. O'Neill .
Henry Traphagen ( June 1 , 1842 - October 11 , 1918 ) was a lawyer and the Mayor of Jersey City , New Jersey for the Democratic Party from May 4 , 1874 to April 30 , 1876 .
Charles Siedler ( May 24 , 1839 in Münden , Germany - June 28 , 1921 in Bloomfield , New Jersey ) was the 20th Mayor of Jersey City , New Jersey from May 1 , 1876 to May 5 , 1878 .