The Political Graveyard: Mayors and Postmasters of Lexington, Kentucky

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Mayors and Postmasters of Lexington, Kentucky

Mayors of Lexington, 1832-2003 (may be incomplete!)
Charleton Hunt 1832-34 James E. Davis 1835-36 J. G. McKinney 1837-38 C. H. Wickliffe 1839-40 Daniel Bradford 1841 James Logue 1842-45 Thomas Ross 1846 John Henry 1847 George P. Jouett 1848 O. F. Payne 1849-50 E. W. Dowden 1851-53 T. H. Pindell 1854 William Swift 1855-58 T. B. Monroe 1859 Benjamin F. Graves 1860-61 C. T. Worley 1862 Joseph Wingate 1863-65 D. W. Standiford 1866 J. T. Frazer 1867 J. G. Chinn 1868 J. T. Frazer 1869-72 C. M. Johnson 1880 C. W. Foushee as of 1892 Reed Wilson as of 1937 Thomas G. Mooney as of 1950-51 Fred Fugazzi as of 1952-55 Shelby C. Kinkead as of 1956-59 Richard J. Colbert as of 1960 Scotty Baesler as of 1982-92 Teresa Issac as of 2003

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1977: Scotty Baesler, defeated.

Postmasters at Lexington, 1794-1974 (may be incomplete!)
Innes B. Brent 1794-98 John Wesley Hunt 1798-1802 John Jourdan, Jr. 1802-13 John Fowler 1814-22 Joseph Ficklin 1822-41 Thomas Redd 1841-43 Joseph Ficklin 1843-50 George R. Trotter 1850-52 Squire Bassett 1852-55 Jesse Woodruff 1855-61 Lyman B. Todd 1861-69 Samuel W. Price 1869-76 Hubbard K. Milward 1876-87 William S. McChesney 1887-91 James R. Howard 1891-94 William S. McChesney 1894-98 Fielding Clay Elkin 1898-1905 Charles H. Berryman 1905-07 Thomas L. Walker 1907-11 Wilbur R. Smith 1911-14 Moses Kaufman 1914-24 George R. Warren 1924-35 Isaac N. Combs 1935-36 Isaac N. Combs 1936 William F. Klair 1936-37 William F. Klair 1937 Roy F. Williams 1937 Roy F. Williams 1937-52 George Stanley Milligan 1952-53 William H. Cecil 1953-57 William H. Cecil 1957-74

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