[1] Following the death of his successor, Arthur Holland, Armenti served again as acting mayor until he was defeated for re-election in 1990 by challenger Douglas Palmer by a margin of under 300 votes.
[4] After graduating, Armenti served as a United States Army private first class for 20 months; he was stationed in France as a hospital registrar.
During his tenure in office, Trenton was rocked by riots in the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. that left one black youth shot dead by police.
Nationally-syndicated columnist Joe Alsop cited Armenti's switch as symptomatic of a national shift among Catholic and ethnic white voters toward Richard Nixon and the Republican Party following the nomination of George McGovern.
The third-place finisher, police detective Pedro Medina received 3,537 votes and endorsed Armenti in the run-off.
[1] After his defeat, which largely broke down along racial lines, Armenti walked mayor-elect Palmer through the streets of Chambersburg in a gesture of goodwill and unity.