The City of Jersey City is recognizing what would have been the 83rd birthday of a late mayor as Glenn D. Cunningham Day, via both a proclamation and resolution.
By John Heinis/Hudson County View
“Mayor Glenn Cunningham looked at a city with a skyline going up on one side and disinvestment on the other, and he refused to call that success,” Mayor James Solomon said in a statement.
“He said it out loud: the Gold Coast and the Golden Neighborhoods. Both. He defined what it meant to be a representative for all of Jersey City. He earned that legacy — 25 years on the JCPD, a Marine, a U.S. Marshal, and a man who never moved out of the city that raised him.”
Cunningham was born in Jersey City on September 16th, 1943, and never left. He went to P.S. 29, P.S. 14, and Snyder High School.
He served four years as a U.S. Marine during the Vietnam era before spending 25 years as a Jersey City police officer, retiring as a captain.
He served on the Hudson County Board of Chosen Freeholders, represented Bergen-Lafayette on the City Council, rose to council president, and was appointed by President Bill Clinton (D) as U.S. Marshal for the District of New Jersey in 1996.
In 2001, he was elected the...