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Mayors and Postmasters of Payette, Idaho

Mayors of Payette, 1891-2021 (may be incomplete!)
A. B. Moss 1891-92 J. H. Richards 1892-94 Travis Brown 1894-95 A. B. Moss 1895-97 W. A. Coughanour 1897-99 David Lamme 1899-1900 W. A. Coughanour 1900-01 Frank M. Satoris 1901-04 Frank Crighton 1904-05 R. E. Haynes 1905-07 W. A. Coughanour 1907-11 Hillary J. Brannock 1911-13 C. B. Compton 1913-15 Burt Venable 1915-17 I. R. Woodward 1917-33 J. J. Wood 1933-35 I. R. Woodward 1935-41 John A. McMillan 1941-53 Ursus Dalton 1953-55 John A. McMillan 1955-56 A. V. Kinney 1956-59 C. T. Clauser 1959-61 Leonard J. Josephson 1961-69 Wesley Roehr 1969-77 Dick E. Butcher 1978-89 Floyd Moyer 1990-94 James E. McCue 1994-98 Ann Crosby 1998-2001 Mark Heleker 2002-05 Doug Henderson 2005-09 Jeffrey T. Williams 2010-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1903 Apr 7: Frank M. Satoris, elected unopposed.
  • 1904 Apr 5: Frank Crighton (Citizens Improvement), elected; J. M. Bennett (Good Government), defeated.
  • 1905 Apr 4: R. E. Haynes, elected; J. M. Bennett, defeated.
  • 1907 Apr 2: W. A. Coughanour, elected unopposed.
  • 1911 Apr 4: W. A. Coughanour, defeated.
  • 1913 Apr 1: C. B. Compton, elected; R. E. Haynes, defeated.
  • 1915 Apr 27: Burt Venable (Citizens), elected; W. A. Coughanour (People's), defeated; Levi Slinker (Taxpayers), defeated.
  • 1919 Apr 22: I. R. Woodward, elected unopposed.
  • 1925 Apr 28: I. R. Woodward (Citizens), elected; H. O. Musgrove (Ind), defeated.
  • 1933 Apr 25: J. J. Wood, elected; I. R. Woodward, defeated.
  • 1935 Apr 23: I. R. Woodward, elected; B. F. McCarroll, defeated.
  • 1937 Apr 27: I. R. Woodward, elected; C. C. Springstun, defeated.
  • 1939 Apr 25: I. R. Woodward, elected unopposed.
  • 1941 Apr 22: John A. McMillan, elected; I. R. Woodward, defeated.
  • 1943 Apr 27: John A. McMillan, elected unopposed.
  • 1945 Apr 24: John A. McMillan, elected; L. W. Brainard, defeated.
  • 1949 Apr 26: John A. McMillan, elected; Archie W. Hodges, defeated.
  • 1951 Apr 24: John A. McMillan, elected unopposed.
  • 1953 Apr 28: Ursus Dalton, elected; John A. McMillan, defeated.
  • 1955 Apr 26: John A. McMillan, elected.
  • 1956 Jul 29: John A. McMillan, died in office.
  • 1957 Apr 23: A. V. Kinney, elected unopposed.
  • 1959 Apr 28: C. T. Clauser, elected; A. V. Kennion, defeated.
  • 1961 Apr 25: Leonard J. Josephson, elected; C. T. Clauser, defeated.
  • 1963 Nov 5: Leonard J. Josephson, elected; C. T. Clauser, defeated; Leo Marsters, defeated.
  • 1965 Nov 2: Leonard J. Josephson, elected; Ralph Paris, defeated.
  • 1969: Leonard J. Josephson, resigned.
  • 1973 Nov 6: Wesley Roehr, elected unopposed.
  • 1977 Nov 8: Dick E. Butcher, elected unopposed.
  • 1981 Nov 3: Dick E. Butcher, elected; Reid Holcomb, defeated; Jerry Quada, defeated.
  • 1985 Nov 5: Dick E. Butcher, elected; Rod Calkins, defeated; Lawrence Ogden, defeated.
  • 1989 Nov 7: Floyd Moyer, elected; Jim Lewis, defeated; Chuck Roe, defeated.
  • 2001 Nov 6: Mark Heleker, elected; Ann Crosby, defeated; Becky Thompson, defeated.
  • 2021 Nov 2: Craig L. Jensen, elected; Daniel Lopez, defeated.

    Postmasters at Payette, 1889-1971 (may be incomplete!)
    George P. Johnson 1889-93 W. A. Coughanour 1893-97 Timothy Driscoll 1897 George P. Johnson 1897-1903 Burt Venable 1903-15 E. T. Bowman 1915-20 Albert E. White 1920-28 Logan M. Bowman 1937 Logan M. Bowman 1937-57 Glenn E. Levers 1957-58 Glenn E. Levers 1958-71

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