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Mayors and Postmasters of Nampa, Idaho

Mayors of Nampa, 1901-2023 (may be incomplete!)
W. J. McClelland 1901-03 Frank H. Sutherland 1903-04 H. A. Partridge 1904-05 Rudolphus W. Purdum 1905-06 H. A. Partridge 1907-08 E. H. Dewey 1909-11 H. A. Partridge 1913-14 T. E. Munhall 1915-17 Robert A. Davis 1917-19 H. H. Keim 1919-20 J. Fremont Bow 1921-23 Eugene Emerson 1923-25 George A. Meffan 1925-27 Eustace Smallwood 1929-30 E. W. Rising 1933-35 George I. Van Name 1935-37 R. Lewis Ord 1937-39 Ben H. Waigand 1939-43 A. E. Lindsey 1943-45 S. G. Honstead 1945-47 Peter E. Johnson 1947-51 Preston Capell 1951-57 Thomas A. Leupp 1958-60 Ernest Starr 1961-81 Winston K. Goering 1982-93 Maxine Horn 2001 Tom Dale 2002-13 Bob Henry 2014-17 Debbie Kling 2018-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1901 Apr 1: W. J. McClelland, elected unopposed.
  • 1903 Apr 7: Frank H. Sutherland (Citizens), elected; Howard King, defeated.
  • 1904 Apr 5: H. A. Partridge (Taxpayers), elected; W. J. McClelland (Citizens), defeated.
  • 1905 Apr 4: Rudolphus W. Purdum (Citizens), elected; John S. Fox (Taxpayers), defeated.
  • 1907 Apr 2: H. A. Partridge (Fusion), elected; A. R. Peters (Ind), defeated.
  • 1911 Apr 4: E. H. Dewey (Citizens), elected; J. J. Gardner (Socialist), defeated.
  • 1913 Apr 1: H. A. Partridge, elected; R. A. Idwards (Socialist), defeated.
  • 1915 Apr 27: T. E. Munhall (Ind), elected; Eustace Smallwood (Citizens), defeated; Stuart (Socialist), defeated.
  • 1919 Apr 22: H. H. Keim (Ind), elected; A. W. Hoy (Citizens), defeated.
  • 1921 Apr 26: J. Fremont Bow (Public Convention), elected; J. H. Cowell (Ind), defeated.
  • 1923 Apr 24: Eugene Emerson, elected; George A. Meffan, defeated; J. Fremont Bow, defeated; A. T. Bullock, defeated; Allan Mills, defeated.
  • 1925 Apr 28: George A. Meffan, elected; Eugene Emerson, defeated.
  • 1927 Apr 26: George A. Meffan, elected; J. Fremont Bow, defeated.
  • 1929 Apr 23: Eustace Smallwood (Harmony), elected; Eugene Emerson, defeated.
  • 1931 Apr 28: W. J. Lloyd, elected; Frank Piersall, defeated.
  • 1933 Apr 25: E. W. Rising, elected; George I. Van Name, defeated; John Burkholtz, defeated.
  • 1935 Apr 23: George I. Van Name, elected; R. Lewis Ord, defeated.
  • 1937 Apr 27: R. Lewis Ord, elected; Horace P. Belknap, defeated; George I. Van Name, defeated.
  • 1939 Apr 25: Ben H. Waigand, elected; R. Lewis Ord, defeated.
  • 1941 Apr 22: Ben H. Waigand, elected; R. Lewis Ord, defeated; Marcus Cook (Taxpayers Home Rule), defeated; A. W. McNeil, defeated; Charles A. Peters, defeated.
  • 1943 Apr 27: A. E. Lindsey, elected unopposed.
  • 1945 Apr 24: S. G. Honstead, elected; Jesse J. Herrell, defeated.
  • 1947 Apr 22: Peter E. Johnson, elected; S. G. Honstead, defeated; Elmer L. Kinney, defeated; Jesse J. Herrell, defeated; Peter J. Burns, defeated.
  • 1949 Apr 26: Peter E. Johnson, elected; Lester Mills, defeated; Sam D. Gallimore, defeated.
  • 1951 Apr 3: Preston Capell, elected; Peter E. Johnson, defeated; Alvie E. Johnson, defeated.
  • 1953 Apr 7: Preston Capell, elected; Harry Giese, defeated.
  • 1955 Apr 26: Preston Capell, elected; Ernest Starr, defeated.
  • 1957 Apr 2: Thomas A. Leupp, advanced to runoff; Preston Capell, advanced to runoff; Ernest Starr, defeated; Peter J. Burns, defeated; O. B. Warnock, defeated; James Chamberlain, defeated.
  • 1957 Apr 23: Thomas A. Leupp, elected; Preston Capell, defeated.
  • 1959 Apr 7: Thomas A. Leupp, elected; Ernest Starr, defeated.
  • 1961 Apr 4: Bill Lees, advanced to runoff; Ernest Starr, advanced to runoff; Alex Hunter, defeated; George Shellaberger, defeated; John Wray, defeated.
  • 1961 Apr 18: Ernest Starr, elected; Bill Lees, defeated.
  • 1963 Nov 5: Ernest Starr, elected; John L. Caldwell, defeated; Lester Davis, defeated.
  • 1965 Nov 2: Ernest Starr, elected; Edson H. Deal, defeated.
  • 1969 Nov 4: Ernest Starr, elected.
  • 1973 Nov 6: Ernest Starr, elected; William E. Wood, defeated.
  • 1977 Nov 8: Ernest Starr, elected; R. James Kenneda, defeated; Roy Pilcher, defeated.
  • 1981 Nov 3: Winston K. Goering, elected; Robert Forrey, defeated; W. Eugene Richey, defeated; R. James Kenneda, defeated.
  • 1985 Nov 5: Winston K. Goering, elected unopposed.
  • 1989 Nov 7: Winston K. Goering, elected unopposed.
  • 1993 Nov 2: Winston K. Goering, elected unopposed.
  • 2001 Nov 6: Tom Dale, advanced to runoff; Maxine Horn, advanced to runoff; Lorraine Ramsey, defeated.
  • 2001 Dec 4: Tom Dale, elected; Maxine Horn, defeated.
  • 2009 Nov 3: Tom Dale, elected; Brad Blaymires, defeated; Jim Dorsey, defeated; Melissa Sue Robinson, defeated.
  • 2013 Nov 5: Bob Henry, elected; Tom Dale, defeated.
  • 2017 Nov 7: Debbie Kling, elected; Bob Henry, defeated; Melissa Sue Robinson, defeated.
  • 2021 Nov 2: Debbie Kling, elected; Jerrold P. Smith, defeated.

    Postmasters at Nampa, 1891-1968 (may be incomplete!)
    John W. Griffith as of 1891 Durnard King as of 1893 Austin G. Nettleton 1899-1905 William Clay Peebles 1944-45 William Clay Peebles 1945-62 Wayne R. Chapman 1962-63 Harold K. Beaudreau 1963 Harold K. Beaudreau 1963-68

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