Hopatcong, New Jersey

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MEMBERS OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE

BOROUGH OF HOPATCONG

From its inception in May 1898 until 1901 the Borough was called the Borough of Brooklyn.

Notes: # = Listed more than once M = Listed as Mayor of Hopatcong

First = Member of Hopatcong’s first Council

	NAME	Date Entered Office	Date Left Office	See Notes
1	Theodore A.K. Gessler	May 9, 1898	May 3, 1913	# M First
2	John Ingram	May 9, 1898	July 7, 1909	First
3	Dwight B. Smith	May 9, 1898	December 31, 1909	First
4	Lewis S. Pilcher	May 9, 1898	December 31, 1911	First
5	Richard R. Sutton	May 9, 1898	November 6, 1907	First
6	John Alfred	May 9, 1898	February 24, 1911	First
7	William Ingram	July 7, 1909	December 31, 1909
8	Thomas B. Atterbury	May 6, 1911	December 31, 1911	#
9	Hudson Maxim	November 6, 1907	December 31, 1923
10	Richard S. Baker	January 1, 1910	October 8, 1921
11	P. W. Getting	March 15, 1910	December 31, 1915
12	Frederick Swanhausser	April 20, 1912	March 11, 1916	#
13	John Hanselmann	April 20, 1912	April 13, 1913
14	Thomas B. Atterbury	May 3, 1913	March 11, 1916	#
15	Theodore A. K. Gessler	June 7, 1913	August 5, 1916	# M
16	David G. Butler	March 11, 1916	December 31, 1921
17	W. L. Douglas	March 11, 1916	May 6, 1922
18	Dudley Gessler	March 11, 1916	December 2, 1922
19	Alva Nelson	August 5, 1916	December 31, 1922
20	Louis Schwab	October 8, 1921	December 2, 1922	# M
21	John J. Powers	January 2, 1922	December 9, 1922
22	T. E. Tolson	May 20, 1922	October 28, 1922
23	Frederick Swanhausser	October 28, 1922	December 31, 1922	#
24	John H. Vollers	December 2, 1922	February 17, 1923
25	Otto Peters	December 2, 1922	February 17, 1923	#
26	Emanuel Kugelman	December 9, 1922	February 17, 1923
27	William F. Beck	January 1, 1923	December 31, 1925
28	L. Robert Walton	January 1, 1923	December 31, 1923	M
29	Frederick Bender	February 10, 1923	December 31, 1923
30	Frank Ball	February 10, 1923	December 31, 1924
31	Odin Thomas	February 10, 1923	November 5, 1925
32	Louis Schwab	January 1, 1924	December 31, 1924	# M
33	Philip Reule	January 1, 1924	January 1, 1925
34	Otto Peters	February 4, 1924	December 31, 1924	#
35	Perley E. Boomer	January 1, 1925	December 31, 1929	M
36	Charles S. Orbin	January 1, 1925	December 31, 1927
37	William H. Glasser	January 1, 1925	December 31, 1925	#
38	George M. Pricket	January 1, 1925	January 1, 1926
39	Aaron Lees	January 9, 1925	December 31, 1935
40	Otto S. Martin	November 5, 1925	December 31, 1929
41	Edward W. North	January 1, 1926	June 24, 1929
42	Daniel McMickle	January 1, 1926	December 31, 1931
43	Frank Ball	January 1, 1926	November 27, 1926
44	George Armstrong	January 1, 1927	December 10, 1927
45	Charles O. Rafer	December 10, 1927	December 31, 1931
46	William H. Glasser	January 1, 1928	December 31, 1930	#
47	Fred Modick	June 24, 1929	December 31, 1929	M
48	James Francomacaro	January 1, 1930	February 5, 1954
49	Roy Stone	January 1, 1930	December 31, 1965
50	Charles P. Thompson	July 14, 1930	December 30, 1960
51	Charles W. Lewis	January 1, 1931	December 31, 1942	#
52	William Spilger	January 1, 1932	March 11, 1933
53	Karl Schuster	January 1, 1932	December 31, 1949
54	Herbert Mayer	March 11, 1933	January 8, 1954
55	William H. Spilger	January 2, 1943	December 31, 1948
56	Charles W. Lewis	January 3, 1949	December 31, 1951	#
57	Willis Davis	January 3, 1950	December 30, 1958
58	George Hunter	January 2, 1952	December 31, 1960
59	Robert Martz	January 8, 1954	May 6, 1960
60	Walter Albinson	February 5, 1954	December 31, 1957
61	Dominick Gentile	January 2, 1957	December 31, 1965	M
62	Joseph McGuinness	January 2, 1959	December 31, 1961
63	Raymond G. Curtin	May 6, 1960	December 31, 1964
64	Frank Neudoerffer	January 3, 1961	January 17, 1964
65	James Verhalen	January 3, 1961	December 31, 1966
66	Fred M. Gaeta	January 2, 1962	December 31, 1967	M
67	Fred Scherr	February 7, 1964	December 31, 1966
68	Williard McMickle	January 5, 1965	December 31, 1967
69	Charles Snively	January 3, 1966	December 31, 1968
70	Martin Murphy	January 3, 1966	January 4, 1968	M
71	Catherine M. Ream	January 5, 1967	December 31, 1984
72	Anthony Taylor	January 5, 1967	December 31, 1969
73	Cornelius Vorst	January 4, 1968	December 31, 1970
74	Charles Marotta	January 4, 1968	December 31, 1970
75	Fred Gardner	January 8, 1968	December 31, 1974
76	Richard Zaleski	January 2, 1969	December 31, 1971
77	Vivian D. Smith	January 2, 1970	December 31, 1972	#
78	Richard H. Hodson	January 7, 1971	December 31, 1975	# M
79	Thomas Stevens	January 7, 1971	December 31, 1973
80	Timothy Barlow	January 6, 1972	February 18, 1973
81	Clifford C. Lundin	January 4, 1973	December 31, 1975
82	Vivian D. Smith	February 18, 1973	December 31, 1973	#
83	Robert Terranova	January 3, 1974	December 31, 1982
84	Phylis Bauer	January 3, 1974	December 31, 1974
85	Frank Tracey	January 2, 1975	June 3, 1976
86	John Smith	January 2, 1975	December 31, 1977
87	Clifford R. Lundin	January 2, 1976	December 31, 1978	# M
88	Vivian D. Smith	January 28, 1976	December 31, 1982	#
89	Donald B. Martin	July 1, 1976	November 4, 1976	# M
90	Robert S. Viola	November 4, 1976	December 31, 1977	#
91	Donald B. Martin	January 5, 1978	December 31, 1979	# M
92	Stephen Duricko	January 5, 1978	December 31, 1980
93	Leslie B. Helyes	January 4, 1979	December 31, 1981
94	Robert Buchalski	January 18, 1980	December 31, 1980
95	Robert S. Viola	January 2, 1981	December 31, 1983
96	Richard H. Hodson	January 2, 1981	September 21, 1982	# M
97	Adrienne Ruprecht	January 1, 1982	December 31, 1987
98	Clifford R. Lundin	October 7, 1982	December 31, 1991	# M
99	Ron Naples	January 1, 1983	December 31, 1985
100	Harry Gotimer	January 1, 1983	December 31, 1985
101	John G. Armeno	January 1, 1984	(incumbent)
102	Anthony F. Maccarone	January 1, 1985	May 3, 1990
103	Mark L. Budinger	January 1, 1986	December 31, 1997
104	Alden T. Smith	January 1, 1986	December 31, 1988
105	David Rizza	January 1, 1987	December 31, 1993
106	Eileen Scott	January 1, 1988	December 31, 1991
107	Margaret Dam	May 15, 1990	December 31, 1996
108	Paul X. Fisher	January 1, 1992	December 31, 1994	#
109	John Shelby Wells	January 16, 1992	December 31, 1995
110	Donald Bogardus Jr.	January 1, 1994	December 31, 1996
111	John P. Domanico Jr.	January 1, 1995	December 31, 1997
112	James M. O'Brien	January 1, 1996	December 31, 2001
113	Thomas J. Aimone	January 1, 1997	December 31, 2002
114	Marie Ryder	January 1, 1997	December 31, 1999	#
115	Vito Castoro	January 1, 1998	December 31, 2000
116	Paul R. Burke	January 1, 1998	December 31,2000
117	Madeline McManus	January 1, 2000	(incumbent)
118	Paul X. Fisher	January 1, 2001	December 31, 2006	#
119	Laurie Spaziani	January 1, 2002	December 31. 2004
120	Estelle Klein	January 1, 2003	(incumbent)
121	Richard Bunce	January 1, 2003	December 31. 2007
122	Sylvia Petillo	January 1, 2005	December 31. 2007
123	Marie Galate	January 1, 2007	December 31. 2007	#
124	Michael Francis	January 3, 2008	(incumbent)
125	Robert Modick	January 3, 2008	(incumbent)

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