The Political Graveyard: Mayors and Postmasters of Santa Rosa, California

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Mayors and Postmasters of Santa Rosa, California

Mayors of Santa Rosa, 1876-2003 (may be incomplete!)
Edward Neblett 1876-78 James H. Gray as of 1909 Charles E. Lee as of 1914 J. C. Mailer as of 1918-19 W. E. Rutherford as of 1921 Charles O. Dunbar as of 1922 Lawrence A. Pressley as of 1923 George R. Cadan as of 1937 Jerome Kushins as of 1952 Alex McCluskey as of 1953 Leon Reynaud as of 1954 L. W. Zuur as of 1955 Jack Ryerson as of 1960 Sharon Wright as of 2003

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1876 Apr 5: Edward Neblett, elected.

Postmasters at Santa Rosa, 1852-1972 (may be incomplete!)
Donald McDonald 1852-53 Theodore G. Hahmann 1853-57 Flavius A. Nally 1857 James M. Ellis 1857-58 Edward Fisher 1858-61 James M. Ellis 1861 B. C. Westfall 1861-63 H. H. Lewis 1863-64 Thomas Spencer 1864-72 Rufus A. Temple 1872-76 Abraham Neece 1876-84 Thomas B. Hood 1884-88 Christopher C. Farmer 1888-92 Bertrand Ragsdale 1892-93 George W. Lewis 1893-97 Allen B. Lemmon 1897-1906 Hiram L. Tripp 1906-14 Charles O. Dunbar 1914-23 John E. Mobley 1923-24 John E. Mobley 1924-26 Joseph P. Berry 1926 Joseph P. Berry 1926-36 Ernest L. Finley 1936 Ernest L. Finley 1936-39 McBride Smith 1939 McBride Smith 1939-50 Herbert M. Schulze 1950-51 Herbert M. Schulze 1951-65 Raymond A. Brandt 1965 Raymond A. Brandt 1965-72

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