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He was born in Newark, New Jersey on August 25, 1876, the son of Joseph Norton Congleton and the former Mary Isabel Wade.
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Congleton was elected as Mayor of Newark in 1928. In a wave of anti-incumbent backlash, he lost re-election. On December 10, 1936, Congleton suffered a heart attack while driving his car and died.
He was 60 years old.
