The Political Graveyard: Indianapolis, Indiana

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Indianapolis, Indiana
Mayors, Postmasters, U.S. Land Office officials

Mayors of Indianapolis, 1847-2015 (may be incomplete!)
Samuel Henderson 1847-49 Horatio C. Newcomb 1849-51 Caleb Scudder 1851-54 James McCready 1854-56 Henry F. West 1856 Charles G. Coulon 1856 William J. Wallace 1856-58 Samuel D. Maxwell 1858-63 John Caven 1863-67 Daniel McCauley 1867-73 James L. Mitchell 1873-75 John Caven 1875-81 Daniel W. Grubbs 1881-84 John L. McMaster 1884-86 Caleb S. Denny 1886-90 Thomas L. Sullivan 1890-93 Caleb S. Denny 1893-95 Thomas Taggart 1895-1901 Charles A. Bookwalter 1901-03 John W. Holtzman 1903-05 Charles A. Bookwalter 1906-09 Samuel Lewis Shank 1910-13 Harry R. Wallace 1913 Joseph E. Bell 1914-17 Charles W. Jewett 1918-21 Samuel Lewis Shank 1922-25 John L. Duvall 1926-27 Claude E. Negley 1927 L. Ert Slack 1927-29 Reginald H. Sullivan 1930-34 John W. Kern 1935-37 Walter C. Boetcher 1937-38 Reginald H. Sullivan 1939-42 Robert H. Tyndall 1943-47 George L. Denny 1947 Al G. Feeney 1948-50 Philip L. Bayt, Jr. 1950-51 Christian J. Emhardt 1951 Alex M. Clark 1952-55 Philip L. Bayt, Jr. 1956-59 Charles H. Boswell 1959-62 Albert H. Losche 1962-63 John J. Barton 1964-67 Richard G. Lugar 1968-75 William H. Hudnut III 1976-91 Stephen Goldsmith 1992-99 Bart Peterson 2000-07 Gregory A. Ballard 2008-15

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1847 Apr 24: Samuel Henderson (Whig), elected.

1851 Nov 7: Horatio C. Newcomb, resigned.

1856 Nov 8: Henry F. West, died in office.

1858 May 3: William J. Wallace, resigned.

1891: William Wirt Herod, defeated.

1899 Oct 10: Thomas Taggart (Dem), elected.

1905 Nov 7: Charles A. Bookwalter (Rep), elected; John W. Holtzman (Dem), defeated; George Hitz (Prohibition), defeated; Theodore Bernine (Socialist), defeated.

1913 Nov 28: Samuel Lewis Shank, resigned.

1917: Charles W. Jewett, elected.

1927 Oct 27: John L. Duvall, resigned.

1937 Sep 2: John W. Kern, resigned.

1947 Jul 9: Robert H. Tyndall, died in office.

1950 Nov 12: Al G. Feeney, died in office.

1951 Nov 6: Alex M. Clark (Rep), elected; Philip L. Bayt, Jr. (Dem), defeated.

1951 Nov 24: Philip L. Bayt, Jr., resigned.

1959 Jan 1: Philip L. Bayt, Jr., resigned.

1962 Aug 6: Charles H. Boswell, resigned.

1963 Nov 5: John J. Barton (Dem), elected; Clarence T. Drayer (Rep), defeated; Samuel Unger (Ind), defeated.

1999 Nov 2: Bart Peterson (Dem), elected; Sue Anne Gilroy (Rep), defeated; Andrew M. Horning (Libertarian), defeated; John Gibson (Our Party), defeated; John Leroy Plemons, defeated.

2007 Nov 6: Gregory A. Ballard, elected.

2011 Nov 8: Gregory A. Ballard, elected.

Postmasters at Indianapolis, 1822-1975 (may be incomplete!)
Samuel Henderson 1822-31 John Cain 1831-41 Joseph M. Moore 1841-43 John Cain 1843-44 Samuel Henderson 1844-45 Livingston Dunlap 1845-49 Alexander W. Russell 1849-52 James N. Russell 1852-53 William W. Wick 1853-57 John M. Talbott 1857-61 Alexander H. Conner 1861-66 David G. Rose 1866-69 William R. Holloway 1869-81 James A. Wildman 1881-85 Aquilla Jones, Jr. 1885-89 William Wallace 1889-91 Edward P. Thompson 1891-94 Albert Sahm 1894-98 James W. Hess 1898-1900 George F. McGinnis 1900-05 Harry W. Bennett 1905-08 Robert H. Bryson 1908-13 Robert E. Springsteen 1913-22 Robert H. Bryson 1922 Robert H. Bryson 1922-32 Leslie D. Clancy 1932-33 Adolph Seidensticker 1933-34 Adolph Seidensticker 1934-48 George J. Ress 1948-49 George J. Ress 1949-54 E. D. Claggett 1954 Walter A. Smith 1954-57 Walter A. Smith 1957-62 John J. Nice 1962 Charles H. Boswell 1962-63 Charles H. Boswell 1963-75

Registers of U.S. Land Office at Indianapolis, 1825-27 (may be incomplete!)
Robert Hanna as of 1825-27

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