Alex Torpey

Who is Alex Torpey?

Alex M. Torpey is a non-party affiliated American politician. Torpey was elected as the 48th Village President of South Orange, New Jersey in May 2011 for a four-year term by a 14-vote margin. At 23-years-old at the time of being sworn in, he is the youngest mayor in South Orange’s history, and at that time the youngest serving mayor in the state of New Jersey. Torpey is one of the youngest mayors in the United States to oversee a municipality the size of South Orange, which has a $33m budget and 16,000 full-time residents plus approximately 10,000 Seton Hall University students at their South Orange campus.

Torpey was born in New York City, and raised first in Maplewood, then South Orange, New Jersey, and is an alumnus of Columbia High School. Torpey completed his undergraduate degree in Political Science, American Government and Law at Hampshire College, while also serving as student government president, which he often cites as one of the experiences that led him to run for office.