The Political Graveyard: District of Columbia: Commissioner Presidents

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District of Columbia: Commissioner Presidents

Presidents of the District of Columbia Board of Commissioners, 1878-1967 (May be incomplete!)
Seth Ledyard Phelps 1878-79 Josiah Dent 1879-82 Joseph Rodman West 1882-83 James Barker Edmonds 1883-85 William Benning Webb 1886-89 John W. Douglass 1889-93 John W. Ross 1893-98 John Brewer Wight 1898-1900 Henry Brown Floyd Macfarland 1900-10 Cuno H. Rudolph 1910-13 Oliver P. Newman 1913-17 Louis Brownlow 1917-20 Charles W. Kutz 1920 John Thilman Hendrick 1920-21 Cuno H. Rudolph 1921-26 Proctor L. Dougherty 1926-30 Luther H. Reichelderfer 1930-33 Melvin C. Hazen 1933-41 John Russell Young 1941-52 F. Joseph Donohue 1952-53 Samuel Spencer 1953-56 Robert E. McLaughlin 1956-61 Walter N. Tobriner 1961-67

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1941 Jul 15: Melvin C. Hazen, died in office.

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