​Glen Gilmore

When it counted: the 2001 anthrax crisis

In October 2001, the anthrax letters sent to NBC and the US Senate were processed at the postal center in Hamilton. When the state told roughly 1,000 exposed postal workers, on a Friday, to find their own doctors and prescriptions, Mayor Gilmore and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital sent a township police car for 18,000 Cipro pills. Within hours the hospital was treating workers free of charge.

The Washington Post reported that without his intervention, hundreds of postal workers could have been left all weekend without doctors or medication. Postal workers gave him a standing ovation.

Sources: TIME, November 5, 2001. The Washington Post, October 29, 2001.

Mayoral Record

Two terms as Mayor and Director of Public Safety of Hamilton, New Jersey, a community of nearly 90,000.