Absecon, New Jersey Absecon, New Jersey Inset: Location of Atlantic County highlighted in the State of New Jersey.

Inset: Location of Atlantic County highlighted in the State of New Jersey.

Enumeration Bureau map of Absecon, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Absecon, New Jersey State New Jersey Absecon (pronounced ab-SEE-con) is a town/city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's populace was 8,411, reflecting an increase of 773 (+10.1%) from the 7,638 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 340 (+4.7%) from the 7,298 counted in the 1990 Census. The current City of Absecon was originally incorporated as a town by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 29, 1872, from portions of Egg Harbor Township and Galloway Township.

Absecon operates under the City form of New Jersey municipal government, led by a Mayor and a seven-member City Council.

The City Council consists of six members propel from the city's two wards to three-year terms on a staggered basis, with one seat from each ward up for election each year, along with one member propel at-large to a four-year term in office, all of whom are propel on a partisan basis as part of the November general election. Absecon is positioned in the 2nd Congressional precinct and is part of New Jersey's 2nd state legislative district. New Jersey's Second Congressional District is represented by Frank Lo - Biondo (R, Ventnor City). New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Cory Booker (D, Newark, term ends 2021) and Bob Menendez (D, Paramus, 2019).

Brown (R, Ventnor City) and Vince Mazzeo (D, Northfield). The Governor of New Jersey is Chris Christie (R, Mendham Township). The Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey is Kim Guadagno (R, Monmouth Beach). The executive serves a four-year term and the freeholders are propel to staggered three-year terms, of which four are propel from the county on an at-large basis and five of the freeholders represent equally populated districts. As of 2015, Atlantic County's Executive is Republican Dennis Levinson, whose term of office ends December 31, 2015. Members of the Board of Chosen Freeholders are Chairman Frank D.

Coursey, Freeholder District 1, including Atlantic City (part), Egg Harbor Township (part) and Pleasantville (R, 2016), Richard Dase, Freeholder District 4, including Absecon, Brigantine, Galloway Township and Port Republic (D, 2016), Alexander C.

For ninth through twelfth grades, enhance school students from Absecon attend Pleasantville High School in Pleasantville as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Pleasantville Public Schools. City enhance school students are also eligible to attend the Atlantic County Institute of Technology and Charter-Tech High School for the Performing Arts. As of the 2014-15 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 746 students and 83.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student teacher ratio of 8.9:1. As of May 2010, the town/city had a total of 49.71 miles (80.00 km) of roadways, of which 35.12 miles (56.52 km) were maintained by the municipality, 7.54 miles (12.13 km) by Atlantic County and 7.05 miles (11.35 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation. The Atlantic City Expressway and the Garden State Parkway are accessible outside the town/city in bordering Egg Harbor and Galloway Townships.

The Absecon station is served by NJ Transit's Atlantic City Line trains, with east-west service between 30th Street Station in Philadelphia and the Atlantic City Rail Terminal in Atlantic City. See also: Category:People from Absecon, New Jersey.

1917-1999), member of the New Jersey Senate who was a dominant promote of bringing casino gambling to Atlantic City. Climate data for Absecon, New Jersey a b c d e f 2010 Enumeration Gazetteer Files: New Jersey Places, United States Enumeration Bureau.

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"Asked if he served presidents and heads of state, Irvine, who has lived with his wife Karen in Absecon, New Jersey, for more than 10 years, said he could not talk about it 'because it's the White House'." "Malkin, originally from Absecon, New Jersey, is a graduate of Oberlin College." "Joseph Leo Mc - Gahn, a New Jersey obstetrician who, as a Democratic state senator, paved the way for Atlantic City's gambling trade in the 1970's, died Friday at Meadowview Nursing Home in Northfield, N.J.

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