The Political Graveyard: Huntsville, Alabama

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Huntsville, Alabama
Mayors, Postmasters, U.S. Land Office officials

Mayors of Huntsville, 1829-2005 (may be incomplete!)
James G. Birney as of 1829 A. W. McAllister as of 1952 Robert B. Searcy as of 1953-60 Loretta Spencer as of 2003-05

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1964: John L. Cashin, Jr., defeated.

2004: Parker Griffith, defeated.

Postmasters at Huntsville, 1811-1972 (may be incomplete!)
Peter Perkins 1811-16 Stockley D. Hutchings 1816-18 Richard B. Purdon 1818-20 John P. Neale 1820-25 William Atwood 1825-36 Daniel B. Turner 1836-41 Miles Selden Watkins 1841 George Cox 1841-45 Daniel B. Turner 1845-47 William A. Nunnally 1847-49 Joseph J. Pitman 1849-53 Cortez D. Kavanaugh 1853-57 William J. Windham 1857-61 Henry Barham 1865 Joseph J. Pitman 1865-69 Gilbert M. L. Johnson 1869-71 De Witt C. Rugg 1871-72 Isaac D. Sibley 1872-80 John S. Reed 1880-87 Mary L. Clay 1887-89 Bernard F. Ludwig 1889-93 Joseph T. McGehee 1893-98 William T. Hutchens 1898-1914 Robert L. O'Neal 1914-23 Stephen H. Murphy 1923-24 Stephen H. Murphy 1924-35 Louie Glenn Collier 1935-36 Louie Glenn Collier 1936-68 Grady D. Cope 1968-72

Registers of U.S. Land Office at Huntsville, 1816 (may be incomplete!)
John Read as of 1816

Receivers of U.S. Land Office at Huntsville, 1816 (may be incomplete!)
John Brahan as of 1816

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