The Political Graveyard: San Jose, California

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San Jose, California
including Alviso
Mayors, Postmasters, Town Presidents

Mayors of San Jose, 1850-1974 (may be incomplete!)
Josiah Belden 1850-51 Thomas White 1851-54 O. H. Allen 1854-55 Sherman Otis Houghton 1855-56 Lawrence Archer 1856 John M. Murphy 1856 George Givens 1856-57 Ranson G. Moody 1857-58 Peter O. Minor 1858-59 Thomas Fallon 1859-60 Richard B. Buckner 1860-61 Joseph W. Johnson 1861-63 John Alonzo Quinby 1863-68 Mark Leavenworth 1868-70 Adolph Pfister 1870-73 Bernard D. Murphy 1873-77 George B. McKee 1877-78 Lawrence Archer 1878-80 Bernard D. Murphy 1880-82 Charles J. Martin 1882-84 Campbell Thompson Settle 1884-86 Samuel N. Rucker as of 1892 C. W. Davison as of 1909 F. R. Husted as of 1914 Richard French as of 1937 Al Ruffo 1946-48 Clark L. Bradley as of 1952 Parker L. Hathaway as of 1953-54 George A. Starbird as of 1955 Louis S. Solari as of 1960 Ronald R. James 1966-70 Norman Y. Mineta as of 1971-74

Postmasters at San Jose, 1849-1964 (may be incomplete!)
J. D. Hoppe 1849-51 John R. Wilson 1851-53 John W. Patrick 1853-56 Peter O. Minor 1856 Charles E. Allen 1856-61 Simon M. Cutler 1861-70 Charles G. Thomas 1870-73 E. A. Clark 1873-77 Sanfier B. Anderson 1877-78 Daniel C. Bailey 1878-86 Samuel H. Wagener 1886-90 Thomas Kelley 1890-94 John W. Ryland 1894-99 William G. Hawley 1899-1912 Irvin A. Ball 1912 John R. Chace 1912-13 Byron Millard 1913-22 John R. Chace 1922-31 John D. Chace 1931-32 John D. Chace 1932-37 Joseph Anthony Chargin, Jr. 1937 Joseph Anthony Chargin, Jr. 1937-54 Lionel J. Worden 1954 Lionel J. Worden 1954-59 Joseph Pizzo 1959-60 John Serpa 1960-61 William H. Lawrence 1961-62 William H. Lawrence 1962-64

Alviso
(annexed to San Jose in 1968)

Town Presidents of Alviso, 1913 (may be incomplete!)
P. B. Martin as of 1913

Postmasters at Alviso, 1854-1976 (may be incomplete!)
Augustus Rathbone 1854-55 Richard Carr 1859-61 John Berry 1861-65 Hiram B. Fairchild 1865-68 David R. Tilden 1868-73 Mary A. Wade 1873-89 Miles Hollister 1889-1915 Belle H. Davee 1915-40 Stanley H. Perkins 1940 Stanley H. Perkins 1940-76

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