Mohammed Hameeduddin is the Mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey

Mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey

Mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey:*Mohammed Hameeduddin 2010 to present. Mohammed Hameeduddin was the first Muslim mayor of Teaneck.*Elie Y. Katz 2006 to 2010.*Jacqueline Kates 2000 to 2006.*Paul S...

, United States. He was elected on July 1, 2010, in a 5-2 vote by the non-partisan township council. The son of immigrants from Hyderabad, India, Hameeduddin is the first Muslim-American to be elected mayor in Bergen County

Bergen County, New Jersey

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, and one of a few Muslims to hold the office of mayor in the United States. The township's deputy mayor, Adam Gussen, an Orthodox Jew

Orthodox Judaism

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, had attended Teaneck High School

Teaneck High School

Teaneck High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school, which is part of the Teaneck Public Schools district in Teaneck, New Jersey, United States...

 and Rutgers University

Rutgers University

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with Hameeduddin. His election sparked media attention to the diversity of Teaneck's population.

Hameeduddin had been Teaneck's first Muslim councilmember when he as elected to a four-year term on the Township Council in 2008.