| There is no doubt that Frank Hague is Jersey City’s most famous mayor. He served an incomparable 30 years as mayor of Jersey City from 1917 to 1947–seven consecutive terms and half of his eighth four-year term in office. They included the critical years of the Depression and World War II. The mayor’s tenure is known as the “Hague era” in Jersey City history and is identified with “bossism” in American politics. Hague’s stranglehold on politics transcended beyond Jersey City to the county, the state and the nation bringing him both significance and notoriety.Frank Hague was born on January 17,1876, to Irish immigrants Margaret Fagen/Fagin and John Hague from County Cavan, the second of eight children. His father worked as a blacksmith and a bank guard. The family lived on a street of tenement houses commonly known as “Cork Row” in the Second Ward or “Horseshoe” district. Most of the Hague family’s neighbors were recent immigrants, poor, and of Irish-Catholic background |
The relationship to the McCann family is through our Great-grandmother, Margaret Hague. She would have been an aunt of Frank. The Hague family tree as given by Bridie O’Rourke is shown here; Hague family tree (Nov. 2012)