Editing Cliffside Park, New Jersey (section)

==== List of mayors ====
Cliffside Park was formed in 1895 and has the [[Borough (New Jersey)|borough]] form of New Jersey municipal government. It has had numerous mayors, a number of whom served non-consecutive terms. [[Gerald Calabrese]] was longest serving mayor (50 years) in New Jersey at the time of his death.<ref name="CPchrono">{{Citation|last=Matthias|first=Lawrence|title=A Chronological and Picturesque History of Cliffside Park|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PFIfFpSkZ48C&q=A+Chronological+and+Picturesque+History+of+Cliffside+Park|year=2008|publisher=Lulu.com |isbn=9780557015269}}</ref> The following is a list of previous mayors:

*Thomas Calabrese (D) 2015 acting, 2016 to present<ref>Pugliese, Nicholas. [https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/2016/01/05/a-son-of-gerry-calabrese-begins-full-term-as-cliffside-park-mayor/94233018/ "A son of Gerry Calabrese begins full term as Cliffside Park mayor"], ''[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]]'', January 5, 2016. Accessed April 24, 2022. "The Calabrese dynasty was extended Tuesday as Thomas Calabrese was sworn in by Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop for his first full term as mayor, a role that he held in an acting capacity for 20 months before he was appointed to the position in May. His predecessor and father, Gerald 'Gerry' Calabrese, was a powerhouse in Bergen County politics and the state’s longest-serving mayor. He died in April after 51 years in office."</ref>
*[[Gerald Calabrese]] (D) (1961–1963, 1965 to 2015) the longest-serving mayor in [[New Jersey]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Longtime Cliffside Park mayor dies at age 90|url=http://newjersey.news12.com/story/34870452/longtime-cliffside-park-mayor-dies-at-age-90|website=newjersey.news12.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=April 13, 2015|title=Gerald Calabrese: New Jersey's longest serving mayor has died| website=[[The New York Observer]] |url=https://observer.com/2015/04/gerald-calabrese-new-jerseys-longest-serving-mayor-has-died/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Mayor Gerald A. Calabrese – Borough of Cliffside Park|url=http://www.cliffsideparknj.gov/mayor-and-council/governing-body/mayor/}}</ref>
*James F Madden (1963–1965)<ref name="CPchrono" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=James Madden Obituary - NJ &#124; The Record/Herald News| website=[[Legacy.com]] |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/northjersey/obituary.aspx?n=james-f-madden&pid=1832261}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Congress|first=United States|date=May 26, 2012|title=Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rjJTM39uo2UC&q=Cliffside+Park+mayor&pg=PA894|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|via=Google Books}}</ref>
*Frederick F. Dyer (R) (1958 to 1959)<ref name="CPchrono" /><ref>{{cite news|date=August 23, 1997|title=Frederick Dyer|newspaper=[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]]|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-22403961.html|url-status=dead|access-date=2011-10-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415112816/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-22403961.html|archive-date=April 15, 2016|quote=Frederick F. Dyer, a former Republican mayor of Cliffside Park who was dedicated to the Scouting movement, died Thursday at Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck. He was 86. Mr. Dyer became the borough's mayor in 1958 after six years as a councilman. He declined to run for the office again, making way for a race won by Gerald Calabrese, who has been mayor for 34 of the past 37 ...}}</ref>
*Francis J. Murphy (1954–1957)<ref name="CPchrono" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Francis Murphy Obituary - NJ &#124; The Record/Herald News| website=[[Legacy.com]] |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/northjersey/obituary.aspx?n=francis-joseph-murphy&pid=505509}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Means|first=United States Congress House Committee on Ways and|date=June 4, 1955|title=Trade Agreements Extension: Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 1, a Bill to Extend the Authority of the President to Enter Into Trade Agreements Under Section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as Amended, and for Other Purposes ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OpEsAAAAMAAJ&q=cliffside+park+embroidery&pg=PA1841|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|via=Google Books}}</ref>
*Edward Ulrich (R) (1952–1959)<ref name="CPchrono" /><ref>{{Cite web|date=February 2, 1953|title=The Record of Hackensack|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/489783285/|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
*William T. Michaelson (1950 to 1951)<ref name="CPchrono" /> He was indicted in 1951, and again in 1953, on charges of failure to enforce gambling laws, but the charges were dropped in 1955.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}
*[[Joseph C. Woodcock]] (1939–1943)<ref name="CPchrono" /><ref>{{cite web|date=April 10, 1966|title=JOSEPH C. WOODCOCK|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1966/04/10/archives/joseph-c-woodcock.html|access-date=May 21, 2020|work=The New York Times}}</ref>
*Thomas A. Fox (1934–1939)<ref name="CPchrono" /> Died in office in his third term.<ref>{{Cite web|date=June 2, 1939|title=Thomas J. Fox; Mayor of Cliffside Park for Last Six Years Dies at 45|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1939/06/02/93923082.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false|access-date=2020-05-20|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref>
*Frank A. Meyer (1931–1934)<ref name="CPchrono" /><ref>{{Cite news|title=Increased Population and Home Building Predicted for 1932 by Bergen County Mayors; Increased Population and Home Building Predicted for 1932 by Bergen County Mayors Teaneck Expects Great Benefits. Rutherford's Mayor Optimistic| work=The New York Times |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1931/10/25/113343832.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false}}</ref>
*[[Joseph W. Marini]] (R) (1924–1929, 1944–1947),<ref name="CPchrono" /> twice defeated [[Edward Aloysius Kenney]], an unsuccessful candidate who ran as an independent in 1921, as a Republican in 1923, and as a Democrat in 1927. (Kenney later defeated Marini in a race for the U.S. House of Representatives.<ref>{{Cite web|date=May 24, 1934|title=Official Congressional Directory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w3KJuNEcThYC&q=Joseph+W.+Marini+cliffside+mayor&pg=PA69|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office}}</ref>) Became [[New Jersey Superior Court]] judge.<ref>{{Cite web|date=December 15, 2009|title=The time the Chamber of Commerce trip to Washington killed a Congressman| website=[[The New York Observer]] |url=https://observer.com/2009/12/the-time-the-chamber-of-commerce-trip-to-washington-killed-a-congressman/}}</ref> [[New Jersey Assembly]] 1944-1945
*John C. Cadien (1918–1924)<ref name="CPchrono" /> Instrumental in the establishment of Cliffside Park Public Library<ref>{{Cite web|title=About – History|url=https://cliffsideparklibrary.org/about/|access-date=2020-05-20|publisher=Cliffside Park Public Library}}</ref>
*S. Wood McClave (1910–1914)<ref name="CPchrono" /><ref>{{Cite web|date=May 16, 2020|title=Charlotte McClave Shelley, part of legendary Cliffside Park political family, dies at 100|url=https://newjerseyglobe.com/in-memoriam/charlotte-mcclave-shelley-part-of-legendary-cliffside-park-family-dies-at-100/|website=New Jersey Globe}}</ref>
*John E. Ferdinand (1904–1906)<ref name="CPchrono" />
*August Neuman (1895–1904, 1906–1910, 1914–1918)<ref name="CPchrono" /> An investor in [[Palisades Amusement Park]], he was the first mayor of the borough.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Gargiulo|first=Vince|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dmZjDsgUq9cC&q=palisades+amusement+park++acadia+mayor|title=Palisades Amusement Park: A Century of Fond Memories|date=July 1, 2006|publisher=Lulu.com |isbn=9781411661882|via=Google Books}}</ref> He asked the wife of [[Gaetano Bresci]] to move out of the town after her husband assassinated [[Umberto I of Italy]].<ref>{{cite news|date=1901|title=Mrs. Bresci Asked to Leave. Mayor of Cliffside Park, N.J., Has invited Her to Move Away to Prevent Future Trouble.|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10B11F73C5415738DDDA10994D1405B818CF1D3|access-date=2011-10-19|quote=Mayor Neuman of Cliffside Park, Bergen County, N.J., ...}}</ref> Served as [[postmaster]] 1895–1914.<ref name="CPchrono" /> He was briefly shunned by townsfolk after a forgery of his signature.<ref>{{cite news|date=April 29, 1906|title=Barber Wouldn't Shave Him|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1906/04/29/101776823.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0|access-date=2020-05-20}}</ref>