Mayor Term Begins Term Ends Notes Charles Sitgreaves 1861 1862 First Mayor. Major commandant in the New Jersey State militia. Member of the State general assembly 1831 to 1833. Served in the State senate 1851 to 1854. Served as city councilmen from 1834 to 1835. ? 1863 1887 ? Irwin W. Schultz 1884 1885 Lafayette College alumni. Local lawyer. Served a single year long term as mayor and refused to stand for re-election. ? 1886 1886 ? John H. Griffith 1887 1894 Former city physician. Remained active in fraternal and charitable organizations after being mayor. Vernon D. Best 1953 1954 ? William M. Norton 1954 1958 Local self made millionaire of the Norton Oil Co. Testified to congress about the creation of new toll highways as a source of local revenue in 1956. Arthur Paini 1958 1960 Democratic Party Served on the city commission from 1950 to 1958. Unsuccessfully challenged Decker in the 1992 election. James A. Bianchi 1979 1980 Served as a city councilmen from 1966 to 1972. ? 1981 1991 ?Gloria Decker 1992 1996 Former leader of the Warren County . Elected mayor as a Democrat, would switch party affiliations to Republican in 1994 and would lose her re-election bid in 1995. Thomas W. Corcoran 1996 2000 Democrat. Defeated incumbent Decker. Long time chairman of the Phillipsburg Democratic Party. Navy Veteran from World War II and the Korean War. Harry Wyant Jr. 2000 2016 Republican. Served on the town council before serving as mayor for 16 years. Despite his lengthy career as mayor he only voted on the town council once, to appoint his replacement. He and his replacement were defeated in 2016 Stephen Ellis 2016 2020 Democrat. Defeated Wyant in the 2016 election. He graduated from Phillipsburg High School. undergraduate degree at Slippery Rock University and master's degree from Rutgers University, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. He lost his bid for re-election in 2020 to Todd Tersigni. Todd M. Tersigni 2020 Incumbent Republican. Graduate of Phillipsburg High School and Seton Hall University. Served two terms on the town council from 2012 to 2020.
Mayor Term Begins Term Ends Notes Charles Sitgreaves 1861 1862 First Mayor. Major commandant in the New Jersey State militia. Member of the State general assembly 1831 to 1833 Served in the State senate 1851 to 1854. Served as city councilmen from 1834 to 1835. ? 1863 1887 ? Irwin W. Schultz 1884 1885 Lafayette College alumni. Local lawyer. Served a single year long term as mayor and refused to stand for re-election.  1886 1886 ? John H. Griffith 1887 1894 Former city physician. Remained active in fraternal and charitable organizations after being mayor. Vernon D. Best 1953 1954 ? William M. Norton 1954 1958 Local self made millionaire of the Norton Oil Co. Testified to congress about the creation of new toll highways as a source of local revenue in 1956. Arthur Paini 1958 1960 Democratic Party Served on the city commission from 1950 to 1958. Unsuccessfully challenged Decker in the 1992 election. James A. Bianchi 1979 1980 Served as a city councilmen from 1966 to 1972. ? 1981 1991 ?Gloria Decker 1992 1996 Former leader of the Warren County . Elected mayor as a Democrat, would switch party affiliations to Republican in 1994 and would lose her re-election bid in 1995. Thomas W. Corcoran 1996 2000 Democrat. Defeated incumbent Decker. Long time chairman of the Phillipsburg Democratic Party. Navy Veteran from World War II and the Korean War. Harry Wyant Jr. 2000 2016 Republican. Served on the town council before serving as mayor for 16 years. Despite his lengthy career as mayor he only voted on the town council once, to appoint his replacement. He and his replacement were defeated in 2016 Stephen Ellis 2016 2020 Democrat. Defeated Wyant in the 2016 election. He graduated from Phillipsburg High School. undergraduate degree at Slippery Rock University and master's degree from Rutgers University, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy He lost his bid for re-election in 2020 to Todd Tersigni. Todd M. Tersigni 2020 Incumbent Republican. Graduate of Phillipsburg High School and Seton Hall University. Served two terms on the town council from 2012 to 2020.