Thomas J. Whelan was an Irish-American mayor of Jersey City. He served as mayor from 1963 to 1971. Whelan was born on January 28 1922 in Jersey City one of thirteen children to Joseph J. and Charlotte Vogel Whelan. Whelan flew 63 missions in World War II as a pilot in the Army Air Force. He later became the chief security officer of New Jersey Bell Telephone Co.

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  • Thomas J. Whelan was an Irish-American mayor of Jersey City. He served as mayor from 1963 to 1971. Whelan was born on January 28 1922 in Jersey City one of thirteen children to Joseph J. and Charlotte Vogel Whelan. Whelan flew 63 missions in World War II as a pilot in the Army Air Force. He later became the chief security officer of New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. A Democrat, Whelan was appointed mayor in 1963 when his predecessor, Thomas Gangemi, was forced to resign over a question about his citizenship. Whelan ran for mayor in 1965 and again in 1969, winning both times. In 1971, during his second term as mayor, Whelan, as indicted by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey as a member of the "Hudson County Eight," and was convicted in federal court of conspiracy and extortion in a multi-million dollar political kickback scheme on city and county contracts. Convicted along with him was former mayor and political boss, John V. Kenny and former City Council president Thomas Flaherty. Whelan served seven years of a 15-year sentence in the United States Penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Whelan died on July 31, 2002 in a nursing home in Naples, Florida, aged 80.
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