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Terre Haute, Indiana
Mayors, Postmasters, U.S. Land Office officials, Collectors of Internal Revenue

Mayors of Terre Haute, 1853-1968 (may be incomplete!)
William Kirkpatrick Edwards as of 1853-55 Albert Lange 1863-67 Grafton Fleener Cookerly as of 1867-71 Donn M. Roberts as of 1913-15 Sam Beecher as of 1937 Vernon R. McMillan as of 1943-48 Ralph Tucker 1948-68

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1917 Nov 6: Charles Hunter (Rep), elected; Luther Smyres (Socialist), defeated.
  • 1929 Nov 5: Wood Posey (Dem), elected; Chester Kelly (Rep), defeated.
  • 1942: Vernon R. McMillan, elected.
  • 1947: Ralph Tucker (Dem), elected; Clark L. Adams (Rep), defeated.
  • 1963 Nov 5: Ralph Tucker (Dem), elected; Howard G. Armstrong (Rep), defeated.

    Postmasters at Terre Haute, 1862-1974 (may be incomplete!)
    Joseph O. Jones as of 1862-63 F. E. Benjamin as of 1899 S. E. Gray as of 1901-03 Jerome F. Shandy 1936-37 Jerome F. Shandy 1937-50 Frank L. Miklozek 1950-52 Frank L. Miklozek 1952-74

    Registers of U.S. Land Office at Terre Haute, 1821-23 (may be incomplete!)
    Williamson Dunn as of 1821-23

    U.S. Collectors of Internal Revenue at Terre Haute, 1864-1917 (may be incomplete!)
    Richard W. Thompson 1864-66 Jesse I. Alexander as of 1867 Deloss W. Minshall as of 1879 Joseph P. Throop as of 1891 John R. Bonnell as of 1909 Isaac R. Strouse as of 1917

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