Bert Daly

Albert Joseph Daly (April 8, 1881 – September 3, 1952) was an American Major League Baseball infielder who played for the Philadelphia Athletics during the season while he was in medical school. He worked as a physician which became his entry point into politics and ended up serving five terms as mayor of his hometown of Bayonne, New Jersey to which he was elected both as a Republican and as a Democrat.

Biography Born and raised in Bayonne, Daly attended the University of Maryland, College Park.

He was appointed in 1920 to serve as the physician of Hudson County, New Jersey, serving in that role until 1938. He was elected to his fifth term of office in 1943. In 1946, while serving his fifth and final term in office, Daly faced indictment on charges of official misconduct relating to claims that he had and the city's police chief had failed to deal with bookmaking and gambling in Bayonne, though the charges against him were later thrown out.

In March 1947, Daly announced that he would be supporting a slate of candidates running for Bayonne city council in opposition to the official slate that was being supported by Hudson County Democratic Party boss Frank Hague. Later that month, with the break with Hague complete, and having lost support from the party, Daly stepped down as mayor.