Bayard Hilton Faulkner (July 19, 1894 – November 1983) was Mayor of Montclair, New Jersey, and chairman of the 1950 Commission on Municipal Government. The legislation crafted by this commission to update and reform New Jersey's municipal law is commonly called the Faulkner Act, named in his honor.[1]

Biography

He was born on July 19, 1894, in Bucklin, Missouri, to Hilton S. Faulkner and Nellie L. Herreman. After moving in 1900 to Jersey City, New Jersey, with his family, he graduated from William L. Dickinson High School in 1911 and then from New York University.[2]

As chairman of the 1950 Commission on Municipal Government, he was responsible for drafting what became the Optional Municipal Charter Law, which provides New Jersey municipalities with a variety of additional models of local government, beyond the traditional forms (City, Township, Town, Borough and Village), and the two reform-era forms (Walsh Act and the 1923 Municipal Manager Law).

He died in November 1983. Faulkner was buried in Mount Hebron Cemetery, Montclair, New Jersey.

References

  1. ↑ A HISTORY OF MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT IN NEW JERSEY SINCE 1798 Archived 2006-09-22 at the Wayback Machine p. 23, accessed May 21, 2006
  2. ↑ "Former Mayor Faulkner Dies", The Montclair Times, November 17, 1983. Accessed February 26, 2023, via Newspapers.com. "Mr. Faulkner was born July 19, 1894 in Bucklin, Mo., but his family moved in 1900 to Jersey City. He was graduated from Dickinson High School in Jersey City in 1911 and from New York University, where he received a bachelor of commercial science degree, cum laude."
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