Congress appropriated funding to initiate professionalization of the Life Saving Service.

The life-saving service was formalized by Captain Hugh McClellan on Island Beach (later Island Beach State Park). He took 6 trained uniformed men to New Orleans for the World's Fair to demonstrate lifesaving techniques, which became the national standard.

A crude boardwalk, consisting of boards laid temporarily on the sand, was replaced by a permanent one built on piling in Point Pleasant Beach.

The County’s population was 18,723.

Ocean County celebrated its semicentennial anniversary. During its first 50 years, the County added 16 more municipalities to its original six.

The County’s population was 19,747.

The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, giving women the right to vote. The Board of Chosen Freeholders was reduced from 28 to 3 members. The county government structure consisted of 11 departments.

The County’s population was 22,155.

John D. Rockefeller, Jr. offered the family’s Lakewood estate, both mansion and property) to the County as a gift three years after his father’s death.

The County’s population was 37,706.

The Freeholders agreed to accept the Rockefeller gift and establish Ocean County’s first park on the estate.

The United States was attacked by Japan on December 7th and entered World War II.

Operating under the code name “Bumblebee,” the world’s first successful supersonic ramjet, traveling 1,500 m.p.h., was fired from Island Beach on June 3.

World War II ended with the defeat of Germany and Japan.

Ocean County celebrated its centennial anniversary. Hostilities in Korea resulted in the United Nations taking action against the aggressors with the United States providing the bulk of the UN forces.

The County’s population was 56,622.

Plans for one of the County’s first adult communities, Leisure Village in Lakewood, were unveiled. It was described as a “total retirement community designed to meet the broad spectrum of recreation, physical, social and cultural needs of its residents,” who were restricted only to those over the age of 50.

Beth Medrash Govoha, a rabbinal college, was established in Lakewood.

The Island Beach estate of Henry Phipps, the steel magnate and co-owner of Bethlehem Steel, was purchased by the State for conservation and recreation, establishing Island Beach State Park.

Ocean County College, a two-year community college, was established in Toms River.

A 92.6% population explosion in the last decade, mushroomed the County’s population to 208,470.

During the next decade, some local school districts could not keep up with the rapidly rising pupil population and had to institute half-day sessions when alternative temporary off-site facilities were not available

The County’s population was 433,203, representing more than 60 racial and ancestral ethnic groups.

First farm (139 acres) was preserved through the Ocean County Farmland Preservation Program.