The Political Graveyard: Mayors and Postmasters of Lake Forest, Illinois

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Mayors and Postmasters of Lake Forest, Illinois

Mayors of Lake Forest, 1861-2013 (may be incomplete!)
Harvey M. Thompson 1861-65 William Sage Johnston 1865-66 David J. Lake 1866-67 Harvey M. Thompson 1867-68 Sylvester Lind 1868-70 Samuel Ezra Barnum 1870-71 John V. Farwell 1871-72 Samuel Ezra Barnum 1873-74 Sylvester Lind 1874-77 Amzi Benedict 1877-78 Sylvester Lind 1878-79 Samuel Ezra Barnum 1879-81 Sylvester Lind 1881-84 Amzi Benedict 1884-85 Joseph B. Durand 1886-88 Moses Lewis Scudder 1888-89 Walter Cranston Larned 1889-91 Calvin Durand 1891-95 Edward F. Gorton 1895-1902 Mark Morton 1902-03 Fredrik Herman Gade 1903-06 David H. Jackson 1906-09 Fredrik Herman Gade 1909-10 C. Frederic Childs 1910-11 John T. Pirie, Sr. 1911-14 Leverett Thompson 1914-15 William Mather Lewis 1915-17 Keene H. Addington 1917-19 Henry A. Rumsey 1919-25 Farwell Winston 1925-28 Albert Blake Dick, Jr. 1928-31 Albert D. Farwell 1931-34 Francis E. Manierre 1934-37 Kent Chandler 1937-40 Richard H. Mabbatt 1940-43 Charles F. Clarke 1943-46 Edward K. Welles 1946-48 John O. Giles 1948-51 W. Paul McBride 1951-54 Elliot Donnelley 1954-57 Morrison Waud 1957-60 George R. Beach, Jr. 1960-63 Michael Cudahy 1963-66 Willard K. Jaques 1966-69 Bruce M. Macfarlane 1969-70 Kent Chandler, Jr. 1970-73 Aidan I. Mullett 1973-75 James E. Swarthout 1975-78 Frank J. Waldeck 1978-81 Gerhard E. Seidel 1981-84 Francis C. Farwell II 1984-87 Marshall C. Strenger 1987-90 Charles F. Clarke, Jr. 1990-93 Rhett W. Butler 1993-96 Cornelius B. Waud 1996-99 Howard J. Kerr 1999-2002 John E. Preschlack 2002-05 S. Michael Rummel 2005-09 James J. Cowhey, Jr. 2009-13

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1942 Apr 14: Richard H. Mabbatt, elected unopposed.

Postmasters at Lake Forest, 1887-1901 (may be incomplete!)
Mary McLaughlin as of 1887-1901

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