Orange, New Jersey The City of Orange (known simply as Orange) is a Township (New Jersey), township in Essex County, New Jersey, Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 34,447, an increase o ...

is governed within the

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, formally known as the Optional Municipal Charter Law, under the Mayor-Council form of municipal government, with a directly elected mayor and a City Council consisting of four

ward Ward may refer to: Division or unit * Hospital ward, a hospital division, floor, or room set aside for a particular class or group of patients, for example the psychiatric ward * Prison ward, a division of a penal institution such as a pris ...

representatives and three

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 tha ...

representatives. Councilmembers are elected to serve four-year terms of office in

non-partisan Nonpartisanship, also known as nonpartisanism, is a lack of affiliation with a political party and a lack of political bias. While an ''Oxford English Dictionary'' definition of ''partisan'' includes adherents of a party, cause, person, etc., ...

elections on a staggered basis with the four ward seats and the three at-large seats coming up for election on an alternating cycle every two years.''2012 New Jersey Legislative District Data Book'',

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, March 2013, p. 125.

Mayors

*Dwayne D. Warren, 2012 to PresentOffice of the Mayor
City of Orange Township. Accessed July 4, 2016. *

Eldridge Hawkins Jr. Eldridge Hawkins, Jr. (born July 25, 1979) was Mayor of Orange, New Jersey, a city of 33,000 residents in Essex County, New Jersey with an annual $53 million operating budget. As Chair of the Management Reform Committee of the N.J. League of Mun ...

2008 to 2012 *

Mims Hackett Mims Hackett Jr. (born September 28, 1941) is an American Democratic Party politician, who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2002 to 2007, where he represented the 27th Legislative District, which covers the western portion of Es ...

1996 to 2008 * Robert L. Brown 1988 to 1996, the city's first African-American mayor *Paul Monacelli (1984–88). *Joel L. Shain (1970-1974; 1980–84) *Russell A. Riley *Joseph Promollo * William Howe Davis, 1942 to 1954. *Ovid C. Bianchi (July 1, 1938 - June 30, 1942). * Daniel Francis Minahan .Daniel Francis Minahan

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. Accessed August 23, 2007. *Arthur Browne Seymour, 1908 to 1912 *

George Huntington Hartford George Huntington Hartford (September 5, 1833 – August 29, 1917) headed the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P) from 1878 to 1917. During this period, A&P created the concept of the chain grocery store and expanded into the country's ...

, 1878 to 1890.

References

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Orange Orange most often refers to: *Orange (fruit), the fruit of the tree species '' Citrus'' × ''sinensis'' ** Orange blossom, its fragrant flower ** Orange juice *Orange (colour), the color of an orange fruit, occurs between red and yellow in the vi ...