Frank E. Rodgers, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Frank E. Rodgers

Mayor of Harrison, New Jersey

Date of Birth: 15-Nov-1909

Date of Death: 09-Feb-2000

Profession: politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Frank E. Rodgers

  • Francis E.
  • Rodgers (November 15, 1909 – February 8, 2000) was an American Democratic Party politician who was among the longest-serving Mayors in U.S.
  • history, first elected in 1946 as Mayor of Harrison, New Jersey.
  • He served in the position for 48 years from 1946 to 1995, having been elected to 24 consecutive two-year terms in office.
  • On May 30, 1987, Rodgers earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records when he surpassed by a single day Mayor Erastus Corning II of Albany, New York, who died in office in 1983 after having served 40 years, 4 months and 28 days in office.
  • The town marked the occasion by closing municipal offices in the mayor's honor and by letting students in the Harrison Public Schools have a day off.
  • However, Mayor Hilmar Moore of Richmond, Texas, served a much longer span of 63 years in office until he died in 2012.

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