Henry Traphagen was a lawyer and the Democratic Party

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 Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey from May 4, 1874 to April 30, 1876.

Biography

He was born on June 1, 1842, in Jersey City to Henry Mackaners Traphagen and Sarah Conselyea. He had a brother, William C. Traphagen. He was the great-grandson of former Jersey City mayor Cornelius Van Vorst

Cornelius Van Vorst

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. He studied at Rutgers College

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 and Brown University

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 and became an attorney in 1864.

He married Annie Matilda Cambell (1847-1919) on November 9, 1869.

He was elected mayor and served one term, from May 4, 1874 to April 30, 1876.

He died on October 11, 1918 in Tenafly, New Jersey

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