Vito Perillo, the mayor of Tinton Falls, N.J., and known in life as the nation’s oldest mayor, has died. He was 100. Perillo died Saturday night, the Asbury Park Press reported. He made national headlines in 2017, when he first ran for mayor at age 93, and again in 2021 when he was reelected.

Believed to be America's oldest mayor, Vito Perillo is being remembered as someone who led with “wisdom, kindness and a deep sense of duty."

He stunned people when as a 93-year old WWII veteran he ran for mayor and won. But on Saturday night, Tinton Falls beloved Mayor Vito Perillo died