The Political Graveyard: Owensboro, Kentucky

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Owensboro, Kentucky
including Yellow Banks
Mayors, Postmasters

Mayors of Owensboro, 1866-1960 (may be incomplete!)
E. S. Ayres 1866 Samuel D. Kennady 1866-72 Ben Bransford 1872-74 George Brown 1874-78 John Thixton 1878-79 Thomas Thixton 1879-80 James K. Tharpe 1880-83 Glenn Lovern as of 1950 Fred L. Weir as of 1951-52 L. Woodward as of 1953 Casper S. Gardner as of 1954-57 Benjamin W. Hawes as of 1959-60

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1866 Apr 18: E. S. Ayres, died in office.

1870 Apr 4: Samuel D. Kennady, elected.

1878: James K. Tharpe, defeated; John Thixton, elected.

1880: James K. Tharpe, elected.

1882: James K. Tharpe, elected.

Postmasters at Owensboro, 1816-1998 (may be incomplete!)
James M. Rogers 1816-44 Jesse P. Bristow 1844-49 George N. Holmes 1849-50 Stephen F. Ogden 1850-56 James B. Watkins 1856-58 Solomon J. Howard 1858-59 Thomas H. Higdon 1859-60 James Megill 1860-61 Jesse Moore 1861-75 Samuel C. Wing 1875-80 Lawson Reno 1880-85 James Kennady 1885-90 Charles C. Watkins 1890-91 John H. McHenry 1891-93 John M. Simmons 1893-96 Salem H. Ford 1896-98 Frederick A. Van Rensselaer 1898-1914 Floyd J. Laswell 1914-20 Clint Griffith 1920-21 Mary F. Gilmour 1921-22 Mary F. Gilmour 1922-30 Onis L. Greer 1930-35 Lawrence W. Hager 1935 Lawrence W. Hager 1935-41 Bess M. Cary 1941 Simon B. Smith 1941-57 Jacob H. Weller 1957-58 Jacob H. Weller 1958-65 Thomas A. Sanders 1965-66 William H. Pence 1966-98

Yellow Banks
(now Owensboro)

Postmasters at Yellow Banks, 1806-16 (may be incomplete!)
James Meed 1806-07 John Leman, Jr. 1807-16

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