The Political Graveyard: Mayors of Madison, Wisconsin

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Mayors of Madison, Wisconsin

Mayors of Madison, 1856-2008 (may be incomplete!)
Jairus C. Fairchild 1856-57 Augustus A. Bird 1857-58 George B. Smith 1858-61 Levi B. Vilas 1861-62 William T. Leitch 1862-65 Elisha W. Keyes 1865-67 Alden S. Sanborn 1867-68 David Atwood 1868-69 Andrew Proudfit 1869-71 J. B. Bowen 1871-72 James L. Hill 1872-73 Jared C. Gregory 1873-74 Silas U. Pinney 1874-76 John N. Jones 1876-77 Harlow S. Orton 1877-78 George B. Smith 1878-79 John R. Baltzell 1879-80 Philip L. Spooner, Jr. 1880-81 James Conklin 1881-84 Breese J. Stevens 1884-85 Hiram N. Moulton 1885-86 Elisha W. Keyes 1886-87 James Conklin 1887-88 M. Ransom Doyon 1888-90 Robert M. Bashford 1890-91 William H. Rogers 1891-93 John Corscot 1893-95 Jabe B. Alford 1895-96 Albert A. Dye 1896-97 Mathias J. Hoven 1897-98 Charles E. Whelan 1898-99 Mathias J. Hoven 1899-1901 Storm Bull 1901-02 John W. Groves 1902-03 William Dexter Curtis 1904-05 Joseph C. Schubert 1906-11 John B. Heim 1912-13 Adolph H. Kayser 1914-15 George C. Sayle 1916-19 Isaac Milo Kittleson 1920-25 Albert G. Schmedeman 1926-32 James R. Law, Jr. 1932-43 Fred Halsey Kraege 1943-47 George J. Forster 1950-55 Alfred W. Bareis 1955-56 Ivan A. Nestingen 1956-61 Harold E. Hanson 1961 Henry Edward Reynolds 1961-65 Otto Festge 1965-69 William Dyke 1969-73 Paul R. Soglin 1973-79 Joel Skornicka 1979-83 F. Joseph Sensenbrenner, Jr. 1983-89 Paul R. Soglin 1989-97 Susan J. M. Baumann 1997-2003 Dave Cieslewicz 2003-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1999 Apr 6: Susan J. M. Baumann, elected; Eugene Parks, defeated.

2003 Feb 18: Dave Cieslewicz, nominated; Paul R. Soglin, nominated; Bert G. Zipperer, defeated in primary; Susan J. M. Baumann, defeated in primary; Will Sandstrom, defeated in primary; Davy Mayer, defeated in primary.

2003 Apr 1: Dave Cieslewicz, elected; Paul R. Soglin, defeated.

2007 Feb 20: Dave Cieslewicz, nominated; Ray Allen, nominated; Peter Munoz, defeated in primary; Will Sandstrom, defeated in primary.

2007 Apr 3: Dave Cieslewicz, elected; Ray Allen, defeated.

Village Presidents of Madison, 1846-56 (may be incomplete!)
Thomas W. Sutherland 1846-47 A. L. Collins 1847-50 William N. Seymour 1850-51 Simeon Mills 1851-52 Chauncey Abbott 1852-53 Horace A. Tenney 1853-54 Simeon Mills 1854-55 Peter Van Bergen 1855-56

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