The Mayor of Long Branch, New Jersey is the chief executive officer of the city of

Long Branch, New Jersey Long Branch is a beachside City (New Jersey), city in Monmouth County, New Jersey, Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2010 United States census, 2010 U.S. census, the city's population was 30,719,< ...

. What is now Long Branch was split off from

Shrewsbury, New Jersey Shrewsbury is a Borough (New Jersey), borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. Centrally located in the Jersey Shore region in the New York Metropolitan area, the borough is an historic bedroom commun ...

in 1849 to become

Ocean Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey Ocean Township is a township located in east central Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is located on the Jersey Shore. The township is a bedroom suburb of New York City. Ocean Township consists of three main unincorporated c ...

. On April 11, 1867, it became the Long Branch Commission (or Board of Trade) with limited jurisdiction by three commissioners. The city was incorporated by an act of the

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on March 29, 1904 (njleg-128-0376-77) replacing the Long Branch Commission. On May 20, 1904, the city council adopted the Coult Charter as the new form of government, based on the results of a referendum on May 17, 1904, approved by voters. It was officially an independent city. On November 7, 1960, the voters again changed the form of government from Commissioners to Manager-Council. While the council was still elected by the citizens, the mayor was selected by the nine-man council. Since 1966, enacted by direct petition, the city is governed under the Mayor-Council (Plan A) form of municipal government, the

Faulkner Act The Optional Municipal Charter Law or Faulkner Act (, et seq.) provides New Jersey municipalities with a variety of models of local government. This legislation is called the Faulkner Act in honor of the late Bayard H. Faulkner, former mayor ...

."The Faulkner Act: New Jersey's Optional Municipal Charter Law"

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, July 2007. Accessed September 17, 2013. The government of consists of a Mayor and a five-member City Council, whose members are elected

at-large At large (''before a noun'': at-large) is a description for members of a governing body who are elected or appointed to represent a whole membership or population (notably a city, county, state, province, nation, club or association), rather than ...

in nonpartisan elections to serve four-year terms of office on a concurrent basis.''2012 New Jersey Legislative District Data Book'',

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, March 2013, p. 58. Elections, which are held in May, are non-partisan so that party affiliations of candidates are not mentioned on ballots. The inauguration of the new government takes place the following July 1.

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File:Dorman McFaddin in the Asbury Park Press on August 3, 1939.png, Charles Dorman McFaddin in the ''

Asbury Park Press The ''Asbury Park Press'' is a daily newspaper in Monmouth and Ocean counties of New Jersey and has the third largest circulation in the state. It has been owned by Gannett since 1997. Its reporting staff has been awarded numerous national hon ...

'' (August 3, 1939) File:Rufus Blodgett circa 1889.gif,

Rufus Blodgett Rufus Blodgett (October 9, 1834October 3, 1910) was a United States senator from New Jersey and Superintendent of the New York & Long Branch Railroad for 25 years. He served as the Mayor of Long Branch, New Jersey on five occasions. He was t ...

served seven terms as mayor File:J. William Jones portrait in the Asbury Park Press on May 11, 1936.png, J. William Jones served two terms File:Alton Verran Evans in the Asbury Park Press on May 11, 1936.jpg, Alton Verran Evans in the ''Asbury Park Press'' (May 11, 1936)

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