Mayors of East Orange, New Jersey:
Lester E. Taylor, III 2014 to present.
Robert L. Bowser 1994 to 2014.
Cardell Cooper 1990 to 1994 was the youngest mayor. He would later be appointed by President Clinton to be Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
John C. Hatcher, Jr. 1986 to 1990.
Thomas H. Cooke, Jr. 1978 to 1986.
William Stanford Hart, Sr. (1925-1999) 1970 to 1978.
James W. Kelly, Jr. (1908-1990) 1958 to 1970.
William M. McConnell 1952 to 1958.
Charles Henry Martens(1883-1955) 1918 to 1952.
Julian Arthur Gregory(1874-1955) 1914 to 1918.
Worrall Frederick Mountain (1874-1935) 1911 to 1914.
William Cardwell (1856-1931) 1905 to 1911
Edward Everett Bruen (1860-1938) 1899 to 1905, was the first mayor.