Vito Perillo, the oldest mayor in the United States, died Saturday night at the age of 100.
According to the New York Post, the mayor died while serving his second term in New Jersey.
Born in 1924, the late Mayor served in the United States Navy alongside his brother during World War II and then worked as a civil engineer after retiring.
Vito Perillo, who didn’t let age deter him from trying new things including running for mayor was elected in 2017 as Mayor of Tinton Falls in Monmouth County, NJ at the age of 93.
His campaign during the election was fueled by a vigor that made it almost impossible to believe the candidate was nearly a centenarian.
According to a Tinton Falls spotlight on the late mayor, he went door-to-door during the campaign handing out thousands of flyers and walked so much.
When he turned 100 in September 2024, he announced he would not be running again.
