The Political Graveyard: Mayors and Postmasters of Salem, Oregon

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Mayors and Postmasters of Salem, Oregon

Mayors of Salem, 1860-2003 (may be incomplete!)
Lucien Heath 1860-61 E. N. Cooke 1862 Henry M. Thatcher 1863 H. Moores 1864 Q. Wilson 1865 John H. Moores 1866-68 Lyman S. Scott 1869-70 W. Smith 1871 Daniel Payton 1872 A. Monroe 1873 John G. Wright 1874-76 T. M. Gatch 1877-78 C. W. Gray 1879 T. B. Wait 1880 W. Crawford 1881-82 Andrew Kelly 1883-84 W. W. Skinner 1885-86 William M. Ramsey 1887 J. J. Murphy 1888 George Williams 1889-90 P. H. D'Arcy 1891-92 Claude Gatch 1893-96 J. A. Richardson 1897-98 Charles R. Bishop 1899-1903 F. W. Waters 1904-06 G. F. Rodgers 1907-10 Louis Lachmund 1911-12 C. Siegmund 1913 B. L. Steeves 1914 H. O. White 1915-16 Walter Keyes 1917-18 C. E. Albin 1919 O. Wilson 1920 G. E. Halvorsen 1921-22 I. B. Giesy 1923-26 Thomas A. Livesley 1927-30 P. M. Gregory 1931-32 Douglas McKay 1933-34 V. E. Kuhn 1935-38 W. W. Chadwick 1939-43 I. M. Doughton 1943-46 Robert L. Elfstrom 1947-50 Alfred W. Loucks 1951-54 Robert F. White 1955-58 Russell F. Bonesteele 1959-62 Willard C. Marshall 1963-65 Vern W. Miller 1965-72 Robert E. Lindsey 1973-76 Kent L. Aldrich 1977-82 Sue Harris Miller 1983-88 Thomas Nielsen 1989-90 R. G. Andersen-Wyckoff 1991-94 Roger Gertenrich 1994-96 Mike Swaim 1997-2002 Janet Taylor 2003-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1965 Aug 1: Willard C. Marshall, resigned.

Postmasters at Salem, 1849-1982 (may be incomplete!)
John B. McClane 1849-51 Turner Crump 1851-52 Alfred M. Belt 1852-53 Samuel Parker 1853 Milton Shannon 1853-55 Isaac R. Moores 1855-58 Nathan T. Caton 1858-60 Joseph K. Ashley 1860 John B. McClane 1860-61 John T. Hamilton 1861-65 Leroy S. Dyar 1865-69 Thomas B. Rickey 1869-76 Henry M. Thatcher 1876-79 Lyman S. Scott 1879-83 Allen B. Croasman 1883-84 William H. Odell 1884-89 Richard H. Dearborn 1889 Andrew N. Gilbert 1889-94 Benjamin F. Bonham 1894-98 Edward Hirsch 1898-1906 Squire Farrar 1906-13 August Huckestein 1913-22 John H. Farrar 1922-34 Henry R. Crawford 1934-45 Albert C. Gragg 1945-47 Albert C. Gragg 1947-64 Elmore D. Spencer 1964-65 Elmore D. Spencer 1965-82

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