Mayor of Aberdeen Township, New Jersey

Aberdeen Township, New Jersey was incorporated on February 23, 1857, as Matavan Township. It was renamed in 1882 as Matawan Township and was renamed again on November 8, 1977, as Aberdeen Township. On November 3, 1964, the citizens voted to change from the Township Committee form of government, in force since 1857, to operate within the Faulkner Act under the Council-Manager (Plan 3), implemented in its current form based on a direct petition as of January 1, 1990. In this Council-Manager form, all policy making power is concentrated in the council. The Mayor is a member of the council and presides over its meetings. The Manager, appointed by the council and fully accountable to it, is the municipal chief executive and administrative official. A seven-member Township Council is elected at large for staggered, four-year terms of office in partisan elections held every in odd-numbered years as part of the November general election; four seats are up together, followed two years later by the three other seats and the mayoral seat. The mayor is directly elected, while the council selects a deputy mayor from among its members.
Mayors
*Fred Tagliarini, first elected 2009.
* David Lipman, 1990- 1993- First popularly elected Mayor of Aberdeen
*Philip N. Gumbs, 1974 to 1975. He was the first African American Mayor of Aberdeen Township, New Jersey.
*Thomas J. Powers 1972 to 1973. He was elected to the Aberdeen Township Council in 1967. In 1972 he became Mayor of Aberdeen and served until 1973. He was elected as a Monmouth County Freeholder from 1981 to 2005. He became Director of the Monmouth County Freeholders in 2005.

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