If you've been yearning for a complete list of Frenchtown's mayors, yearn no more. Here it is:
1867 Samuel B. Hudnit, harness maker, hardware merchant, manufacturer of carriages and sleighs, real estate developer. No. 1
1867-69 Dr. William Rice, physician. No. 2
1870 S.B. Hudnit again
1871 Frank B. Fargo, merchant and spoke manufacturer. No. 3
1872 S.B. Hudnit
1873 James S. White, sash-and-blind manufacturer. No. 4
1873, Jacob C. Hawk, auctioneer and spoke turner. No. 5
1874 Levi Troxell, a house painter, formerly working for Slater & Hudnit, who later moved to Allentown, Pa. No. 6
1875-76 Thomas Palmer, merchant and later postmaster. No. 7
1877-78 Adam S. Haring, wheelwright and spoke turner. No. 8
1879-80 Edward B. Kachline, partner in the leather business with brother Aaron. No. 9
1881-82 William H. Martin, future state senator, Bridge Street merchant. No. 10
1883 William R. Shurtz, manufacturer of wagon spokes and wheels. No. 11
1884-85 Aaron P. Kachline, in the leather business with brother Edward. No. 12
1886-87 Charles N. Reading, Bridge Street merchant, state assemblyman. No. 13
1888-89 Wilbur Slack, spoke and wheel manufacturer. No. 14
1890-91 Elisha W. Opdycke, livery stable owner, dealer in horses and mules, Hunterdon County sheriff. No. 15
1892-93 Lorenzo D. Hagaman, attorney. No. 16
1894-95 James E. Sherman, dealer in livestock, fertilizer, farm machinery and coal. No. 17
1896-97 Lorenzo S.D. Kerr, carpenter, peach grower, builder and spoke manufacturer. No. 18
1898-99 Israel L. Niece, dealer in timber and lumber. No. 19
1900-01 Samuel O. Eddy, hardware merchant. No. 20
1902-03 George M. Britton, harness maker, department store owner. No. 21
1904-07 Jacob S. Manners, DDS, practiced dentistry and partnered with his brother Charles in a general store. No. 22
1908-09 Frederick H. Decker, MD, practicing physician. No. 23
1910-11 William P. Loper, circus manager turned hotelier, turned butcher, turned porcelain factory superintendent. No. 24
1912-13 Harry M. Harman, MD, physician and pharmacy owner. No. 25
1914-17 Albert E. Lanning, section foreman for the Pennsylvania Railroad. No. 26
1918-19 Chester A. Niece, owned a lumber yard in Frenchtown and sold lumber, coal and feed in Lambertville. No. 27
1920-21 Richard W. Kerr, owner of the biggest chick hatchery in town, also dealer in coal and ice. No. 28
1922-23 Frank S. Grim, MD, physician. No. 29
1924 William W. Rogers, an official of the Crosby Manufacturing Co., later moving to California. No. 30
1924-27 Hugh M. Sinclair, insurance agent, resided on the southwest corner of Third and Harrison streets. No. 31
1928-29 R.W. Kerr again
1930-34 Cornelius S. Hoff, merchant, postmaster. No. 32
1934-38 Paul Cronce, superintendent of Frenchtown Porcelain and owner of Rose Hill Floral Sales. No. 33
1938-40 Embley R. Hummer, owner of E.R. Hummer Real Estate Agency, justice of the peace. No. 34
1941-45 Hugh H. Sinclair, an insurance agent like his father. No. 35
1945-49 Nelson Gardinor, superintendent of porcelain factory. No. 36
1950-53 H.H. Sinclair again
1954-55 Lynford G. Miller, route manager for Bush Dairies in Flemington, then a salesman for Sears Roebuck in Easton, Pa., Florida and Hackettstown. No. 37
1956-57 Forman Vanselous, incubation expert and employee of Kerr hatcheries. No. 38
1958-61 Doyle Pinkerton, milkman for Bush Dairy, TV antenna installer, and grower of vegetables on the future site of Frenchtown Market. No. 39
1962-65 Sherwood “Bud” Anderson, owner of Kerr Hatcheries and father of Frenchtown's sanitary sewage system. No. 40
1966-71 Benjamin M. Cooley, lab technician at Riegel paper mill in Milford. No. 41
1972-76 J. Dale Seip, grew up in the National Hotel and practiced law in Milford. No. 42
1977 Ian Struthers, math teacher at North Hunterdon Regional High School near Clinton, and then at Voorhees High School near Glen Gardner. No. 43
1978-79 Evelyn Ewald, teacher at Frenchtown school. No. 44
1980-81 David A. Johnson, state trooper, undertaker. No. 45
1981-95 Ben Cooley again
1996-2011 Ronald M. Sworen, worked in information technology for Siemens, county freeholder. No. 46
2012-15 Warren E. Cooper, former restaurateur, reporter for Hunterdon County Democrat. No. 47
2016-present Bradley Myhre, former aide to congressman, county director of personnel, clerk to the Hunterdon County Board of Freeholders. No. 48
From “Rick's Frenchtown Encyclopedia”
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