Vincent Lo Re, Jr.
Council President / Council Member At-Large

Vincent Lo Re, Jr. is the son of the late Josephine (Maggio) and Vincent Lo Re, Sr., both lifelong Bayonne residents. His great-grandparents, Josephine and Pasquale Rappisi, were Sicilian immigrants who came to the United States at the dawn of the 20th Century. His grandparents, Sofia and Joseph (Giuseppe) Lo Re, and Jennie and Anthony Maggio, were longtime Bayonne residents.

Vincent graduated from Our Lady of the Assumption School and Bayonne High School, and continued his education at New Jersey City University, formerly Jersey City State College, where he earned a B.A. degree in the Social Sciences in 1969. He continued his education at Rutgers University - Graduate School of Business, where he earned an M.B.A degree in 1974 and is a New Jersey Certified Public Manager (C.P.M.).

In 2002, after 33 years, Vincent retired as a member of the Administration at the New Jersey City University, where he had served as the Associate Controller, Administration and Finance.

In addition to his services as an administrator, he has been an Adjunct Professor of Business Administration and History at Jersey City State College, Hudson County Community College, and Stevens Institute of Technology. His extensive public service in higher education includes service as a member of the Planning Commission and the Board of Trustees of the Hudson County Community College. He was also a  Middle States Association Evaluation Team Member.

Vincent Lo Re, Jr. participates widely in community activities and has been Vice-President of the Bayonne Hospital Foundation and the General Chairman of the Annual Charity Ball in 1987 and 1988, President of the Rotary Club of Bayonne, City Chairman of the Columbus Committee, President of the Jersey City State Alumni Association, and a Board Member of the Bayonne Council, Boy Scouts of America. He has also been a member of the Bayonne Visiting Nurses Association, the Occupational Center of Hudson County, and the Bayonne Bicentennial Committee. In 1979, he was appointed by Governor Brendan Byrne as the State  Representative to the Bayonne Housing Authority Board. He is currently a member of the Sicilian Citizens Club of Bayonne, the National Conference for Community and Justice, the Rotary Club of Bayonne, the Helen and Irving Rogow Foundation and the Bayonne Holocaust Remembrance Committee.

Vincent is a communicant of Saint Henry's R.C. Church, where he has served as a lector, commentator, and parish council member.

In May of 1990, Vincent Lo Re. Jr. was elected to the Municipal Council in the City of Bayonne, where he represented the city's Third Ward. He was re-elected to this office in 1994, 1998, 2002, and  in May of 2006, was elected to the office of Council Member At-Large, representing all of the citizens of Bayonne. On July 1, 1998 he was elected by his peers to serve as Council President, and was re-elected to that position in 2002 and again on July 1, 2006. He is a former commissioner of the Bayonne Planning Board, and a former member of the Bayonne Board of School Estimate. He currently serves as a member of the Bayonne Town Center Management Corporation, and as a commissioner of the Bayonne Local Redevelopment Authority, which is charged with the redevelopment of the Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor. Additionally, he is the Council's liaison to the Historic Preservation Committee and is a member of the Board of the Special Improvement District.

Among the many honors he has received are the Outstanding Young Men of America Award (1974) and the Rotarian of the Year Award (1980, 1984, 2004). On May 13th, 1993, he received the Civic Award from the Bayonne Branch of the NAACP and the 1993 "Man of the Year" award from the Sicilian Citizens Club. On May 13, 1994, Councilman Lo Re received the Support Fund Award from the Bayonne Youth Center, where he is an honorary member. In 1996, Councilman Lo Re was selected for inclusion in the International Who's Who of Professionals. Marquis Who's Who selected him as a biographee for the 2000 World Edition and its 2003 American Edition. In 2001, the Hudson County Columbus Foundation presented him with its Community Service Award and the Hattie Boyer Memorial Organization gave him its Humanitarian Award. He was  honored by Circolo Italiano as its Man of the Year 2003, and received the 2005 Mackin Award from St. Vincent's Troop 25, Boy Scouts of America..

Vincent Lo Re, Jr. is married to the former Janice Kapec, an elementary school principal in the Bayonne school system. They are the proud parents of Dr. Vincent Lo Re III, and daughter-in-law Dr. Serena Cardillo, physicians at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

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