The Political Graveyard: Mayors and Postmasters of Fort Scott, Kansas

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Mayors and Postmasters of Fort Scott, Kansas

Mayors of Fort Scott, 1952-56 (may be incomplete!)
C. F. Brown as of 1952-53 William Rardin as of 1954-56

Postmasters at Fort Scott, 1843-1980 (may be incomplete!)
John A. Bugg 1843-49 Huro J. Wilson 1849-56 James J. Farley 1856 Wiley Patterson 1856-66 Charles W. Blair 1866-69 James A. Tomlinson 1869-71 John B. Campbell 1871-75 Thomas F. Robley 1875-85 John F. Cottrell 1885-89 Homer W. Pond 1889-94 Charles H. Osbun 1894-98 Eldon Lowe 1898-1904 Orlando A. Cheney 1904-09 Griffith R. Hughes 1909-13 Martin Miller 1913-22 Charles R. Fisher 1922-32 Griffith R. Hughes 1932-36 James Martin Miller 1936-48 James C. Hunsicker 1948-49 Harry C. Brooks 1949-54 Burris B. Moore 1954-55 Burris B. Moore 1955-62 Clois R. Coyan 1962-64 Clois R. Coyan 1964-80

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