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Clark, W. Gerould, Jr. (1903?-1974)
W. Gerould Clark Jr. was the mayor of Englewood from 1954-1955. He also was a city councilman and president of the Common Council from 1948 to 1953. Before his involvement in politics, he was a civil engineer for the Erie Railroad. He eventually owned W. Gerould Clark Inc., a realtor company. He married Helen Mary Goodman. He had two sons, W. Gerould III and William. -
Shultz, George Pratt (1920-2021)
George Pratt Shultz was an economist and businessman. He served in numerous government positions including cabinet. While born in New York, he grew up in Englewood, New Jersey. Shultz graduated from Princeton and served in the Marine Corps during World War II. He gained a PhD from MIT. He taught in between his time in government positions at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business and Stanford University.
Throughout his career, he served on Dwight Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers in 1955, was the Secretary of Labor under Richard Nixon in 1969, was the first director of the Office of Management and Budget in 1970, and served as the United States Secretary of the Treasury in 1972. He became an executive of Betchel after his treasury position. Under Ronald Reagan, he served as Secretary of the State and guided U.S. foreign policy. He made efforts to lower tensions in the Middle East with the war in Lebanon, negotiate with the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union amid the Cold War, solve trade issues with Japan, and deal with rising tensions between the United States and countries in Latin America. Shultz urged for communication and efforts to diffuse tense foreign relationships. His efforts, while not always succeeding, helped the start of the end of the Cold War. -
Baer, Byron Mark (1929-2007)
Byron Mark Baer was a politician who served in the New Jersey Senate and the New Jersey General Assembly. He served eleven terms from 1972-1994. In the 1960s he was a Freedom Rider and demonstrated in the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. He was also a leader of the Congress of Racial Inequality. He was most notably involved with the Sunshine Law and establishing the New Jersey Office of the Child Advocate. He married Anne Stewart but they later separated. In 1983 he married Linda Rupert Pollitt. He had two children, David and Laura Baer Levine. -
Lacey, Shirley (1924-2012)
Shirley Lacy was a politician and Englewood councilwoman. She graduated from New York University. Lacy was active in the Civil Rights Movement. She acted as the director of the state American Civil Liberties Union and the leadership training for the Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality Inc. (SEDFRE). Lacy was elected to the Englewood Council in 1977. She was also a Bergen County Overall Economic Development program committee member.
She married Reginald Lewis Lacy. She had two daughters, Deirdre Gaskin and Celeste Lacy Davis. -
Kearney, Joseph F. (1904?-1973)
Joseph F. Kearney was an attorney for Bergen County. He is possibly the first Palisades Park school system graduate to become a lawyer. He attended New York University and John Marshall Law School. He also served as magistrate and was a solider in World War II. -
Kirk, James E. A. (1872-1947)
James E. A. Kirk was the Recorder of Englewood Cliffs under Mayor Herbert Jenkins from 1936 to 1939. He was married to Elizabeth C. He had three sons, Joseph W., James P., and Thomas A. He had three daughters, Agnes T. Heaton, Rita Thomas, and Margaret R. Donohue.Tags Government -
Mackay, Donald (1840-1912)
Donald MacKay was a philanthropist and mayor of Englewood. He served in the Civil War. He relocated to Englewood in 1867. He was the president of the Citizens' National Bank and the director of the Merchants' National Bank and the Harriman National Bank. He was elected to office from 1906 to 1910. He donated the land for Mackay Park. Mackay was also on the board of trustees of the First Presbyterian Church and a member of the Elks club.
He married Jennie Wise. He had three children, Malcolm S., Duncan, and Jennie L. -
Taylor, Walter (1917?-1984)
Walter Taylor was a Reverand at Galilee United Methodist Church and the first ever black elected mayor in Englewood. Taylor went to Clark College and Gammon Theological Seminary. He came north to serve the Trinity Methodist Church in the Bronx from 1945 to 1952. Taylor took leadership at Galilee in 1952. Taylor was the mayor of Englewood from 1972 to 1975. He was also president of the Bergen County branch of the NAACP.
He married Odella Wynkle. He had three children, Walter Taylor Jr., Mary Overton, and Susie England. -
Gaddafi, Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-(1942-2011)
Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi was a Libyian politician. He was the leader of Libya until 2011 when he was assassinated. He came to power in 1969. The revolutionary group he founded overthrew the Western-back Senussi monarchy. His first position was Revolutionary Chairman of the Libyan Arab Republican from 1969 to 1977. Then he served as the Brotherly Leader of the Great Socialist. He believed in Arab nationalism and socialism. He was anti-western capitalism and imperialism. While he claimed to believe that the masses should rule the country, the model of government he created was highly hierarchical which placed his family at the top with unchecked power. He also created numerous social programs and nationalized the oil industry. However, throughout his rule, he was accused of many human rights violations and suppressing dissent.
During the Arab Springs in 2011, a civil war broke out with NATO supporting the National Transitional Council which opposed Gaddafi. The protests began in February and Gaddafi sent the army to Benghazi, opening fire on protesters. Both sides in the coming war committed human rights violations, and in June the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Gaddafi, his son Saif al-Islam, and his brother-in-law Abdullah Sensussi. He tried to flee but was eventually captured by the Misrata militia and brutally killed, which was videotaped. He married Fathia Nuri but was divorced in 1970, a year after they were married. He then married Safia Farkash. He had ten children, eight sons and two daughters -
Denning, Melvin Leslie (1895-1896)
Melvin Leslie Denning was the mayor of Englewood from 1948 to 1953. He was the first to use the direct distance dialing system to make a long-distance call. He was born in 1895 and died in 1986.Tags Politics