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Kitchel, Cornelius Porter (1875-1947)
Cornelius Porter Kitchel was a politician and lawyer. He graduated from Philips Andover Academy in 1897 and then from Yale Law School in 1901. He acted as attorney-in-chief of the Legal Aid Society in 1905 for about a year. He practiced in New York in 1908. He served on the City Council from 1915 to 1920. He was a member and president of the Board of Education from 1922 to 1930. He was the vice president of the board of directors of the Englewood Hospital Association from 1926 to 1929. From 1930 to 1933 he acted as the mayor of Englewood.
He married Edith Ray. After she passed he married Mildred Hankee. He had three children, Lieutenant Commander William Ray, Robert Hankee, and Elizabeth Kitchel Lincoln. He descended from Robert Kitchel who signed the Guildford Covenant and Robert Treat who helped found the City of Neward. He was the son of Farrad Deforest Kitchel who was the first cashier of the First National Bank. He was the grandson of Harvey Denison Kitchel, president of Middlebury College. His nephew was Denison Kitchel a lawyer who was the campaign manager for Barry M. Goldwater. -
Coolidge, John Calvin, Jr. (1872-1933)
John Calvin Coolidge Jr. was an attorney, politician, and 30th President of the United States. Coolidge attended Amherst College. Dwight Whitney Morrow attended with him. Coolidge practiced law in Massachusetts and became involved in politics. He held numerous public offices including serving as a Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1907 to 1909, the Mayor of Northampton from 1910 to 1912, a Senator for the State of Massachusetts from 1912 to 1915, the President of the Massachusetts Senate from 1916 to 1919, the 48th Governor of Massachusetts from 1919 to 1921, the 29th Vice-President of the United States of American from 1921 to 1923 and the 30th President of the United States from 1923 to 1929. He married Grace Goodhue on October 4, 1905. He had two sons, John and Calvin Jr. -
Mckenna, Priscilla (?-?)
Priscilla McKenna was a politician. She was a member of the City Council of Englewood and became the Council president in 1979. She was elected from the first ward.Tags Politics -
Hanna, Marcus "Mark" Alonzo (1937-1904)
Marcus Alonzo Hanna was a businessman and politician. He chaired the Republican National Committee from 1896 to 1904 and was a Senator from Ohio from 1897 to 1904. He married Charlotte Rhodes and had three children.
John Wyman Jones was Mark Hanna's brother-in-law and his sister was Salome Marie Hanna Jones. Hanna spent time in Englewood visiting his sister and brother-in-law. -
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. -
Bell, Virginia Lee (1935-2011)
Virginia Lee Bell was a Politician and Educator. She graduated from Maryland State College with a B.S. She held numerous teaching positions after graduation. She also received two Master's degrees and a PhD. She became active in politics, especially in Harlem, joining the Martin Luther King Jr. Democratic Club. She was the local district leader with Assemblyman Charles Rangel and joined his campaign for U.S Congress. She ran with Percy Sutton in 1965 for the Democratic district leader's post for Central Harlem and was elected twice. -
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. -
Volk, Austin N. (1918-2010)
Austin Volk was the mayor of Englewood from 1960 to 1973.
Volk attended Dwight Morrow High School and Brown University. He served in the Navy in the Pacific Theater in World War II and the Korean War. He retired as a captain in 1965. He married Rae Petigrue in 1979.Tags Politics -
Hinton, Charles Burture (1877-1962)
Charles B. Hinton was a real estate broker involved in politics. He was one of the founders of the Bergen Branch of the National Urban League. He was also elected as a county committee member for the Fourth Ward. He married Elizabeth Sears. He had two children, Theodore and Carmen E. Pawley.