Glenn Cunningham

Career

Cunningham also served in the New Jersey Senate. After Cunningham"s death, L. Harvey Smith became the acting mayor of Jersey City. In a November 2004 special election, Judge Jerramiah T. Healy was elected to complete the remainder of Cunningham"s term.

He also served on the Hudson County Board of Chosen Freeholders, as Jersey City Council President, and as public safety director of Hudson County.

Cunningham"s widow, Sandra Bolden Cunningham, has become a political leader in Jersey City in her own right. She reportedly considered a bid for her husband"s State Senate seat in the 2004 special election and a bid for the State Assembly in 2005.

Achievements

• Joseph Doria was selected to fill Cunningham"s Senate vacancy on an interim basis, and won a special election to fill the balance of the term.

Membership

Before his election as mayor, Cunningham, a former Marine and member of the Jersey City Police Department for 25 years, had been appointed by President Bill Clinton as head of New Jersey"s United States Marshals Service Office. He was a Master Mason and full member of the Most Worshipful Oriental Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons in Newark and was buried with Masonic honors in a funerary procession.