The Political Graveyard: Mayors and Postmasters of Ames, Iowa

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Mayors and Postmasters of Ames, Iowa

Mayors of Ames, 1870-2006 (may be incomplete!)
William West 1870-71 C. E. Turner 1871-72 Walter Evans 1872-73 Iraneaus Liter Smith 1873-74 W. D. Lucas 1874-75 William Clark 1875-77 George Almon Underwood 1877-79 E. R. Chamberlain 1879-80 George G. Tilden 1880-81 Henry Wilson 1881-83 John Watts 1883-84 Parley Sheldon 1884-86 Merrill C. Jones 1886-88 Wallace M. Greeley 1888-90 Parley Sheldon 1890-94 Henry Wilson 1894-96 Marcellus K. Smith 1896-97 Lucien C. Tilden 1897-98 Sovarro Cramer 1898-99 Thomas Thompson 1899-1902 Parley Sheldon 1902-08 J. Galen Tilden 1908-10 Parley Sheldon 1910-16 George Baker 1916-18 E. H. Graves 1918-20 Thomas Lester Rice 1920-24 Frank Hinman Schleiter 1924-34 William L. Allan 1934-38 Frank D. Paine 1938-42 Hollis B. Manning 1942-46 Clinton J. Adams 1946-48 William L. Allan 1948-53 Joseph P. Lawlor 1954-57 Pearle P. DeHart 1958-65 Don R. Newbrough 1966-67 Stuart N. Smith 1968-73 William Franklin Pelz 1974-75 Lee Fellinger 1976-79 F. Paul Goodland 1980-89 Larry R. Curtis 1990-97 Ted Tedesco 1998-2005 Ann Campbell 2006-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1938 Mar 28: Frank D. Paine, elected; William L. Allan, defeated.

1946 Mar 25: Clinton J. Adams (Citizens), elected unopposed.

1977 Nov 8: Lee Fellinger, elected.

1989 Nov 7: Larry R. Curtis, elected.

Postmasters at Ames, 1891-1925 (may be incomplete!)
John E. Duncan as of 1891 L. G. Hardin as of 1901 Lucien C. Tilden as of 1925

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