The candidate selected by the council would hold the seat until a special election is held in November for the candidate to finish Dachisen's term, which expires in December 2019, Inglesino said. The township's Republican county committee will have to submit to the council the names of three potential candidates to take over the mayor's position. Clare's Hospital in Dover, where he was pronounced dead, Iaciofano said.Ĭouncil President Jeremy Jedynak will be acting mayor for at least 30 days, said John Inglesino, a former township mayor and attorney representing Jedynak against a lawsuit filed by Dachisen. Re-elected in 2015, he was expected to run again in 2019.ĭachisen's wife, Cathy, went to pick up their grandchildren and found her husband unconscious in their home sometime Wednesday afternoon, Iaciofano said. Later that year, Dachisen won a special election to serve out Sceusi's term through 2015. He could holler at you one minute and hug you the next.'ĭachisen, a Republican, was elevated from council president to mayor in June 2012 when then-Mayor Louis Sceusi stepped down to become a Superior Court judge.

'Mike was larger than life, a good man who wasn't in politics for the ladder-climbing. 'He had a massive, stress-induced heart attack,' Iaciofano said. He had an EKG and was sent home, Iaciofano said.

The mayor went to the doctor Monday due to tingling in his hand and arm, Iaciofano said. ROCKAWAY TOWNSHIP - Mayor Michael Dachisen died Wednesday evening of a heart attack, just days after he had a stress test and was cleared by a doctor to go home, two friends said Thursday morning.ĭachisen, 58, was not feeling well early in the week, said Township Attorney John Iaciofano. View Gallery: Rockaway Township's late Michael Mayor Dachiesen through the years

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