Richard Perdun, the current mayor of Jerseyville, Illinois,[1] was born on September 11, 1951. A lifelong Jerseyville resident and community servant, Perdun is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force Reserve and a parishioner at Holy Ghost. He announced his run for the mayor's seat in 2010, and had previously been commissioner of accounts and finance,[2] and public property commissioner in the 1990s.[3]