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Mayors and Postmasters of Chicopee, Massachusetts

Mayors of Chicopee, 1891-2022 (may be incomplete!)
George Sylvester Taylor 1891-92 William W. McClench 1892-93 Henry H. Harris 1893-94 William M. E. Mellen 1894-95 Andrew W. Gale 1895-96 Alexander Grant 1896-97 George D. Eldridge 1897-99 Denis Murphy 1899-1901 James H. Loomis 1901-04 Charles A. Buckley 1904-05 Albert E. Taylor 1905-08 Joseph O. Beauchamp 1908-09 William J. Fuller 1909-10 Samuel E. Fletcher 1910-12 Frank A. Rivers 1912-14 Rogette D. Earle 1914-15 William J. Dunn 1915-16 Daniel J. Coakley 1916-20 James E. Higgins 1920-22 Joseph E. Grise 1922-26 Michael I. Shea 1926-28 Henry Cloutier 1928-32 Anthony J. Stonina 1932-34 O'Neil Deroy 1934-36 Anthony J. Stonina 1936-40 Leo P. Senecal 1940-44 Edward O. Bourbeau 1944-52 Walter J. Trybulski 1952-56 Walter M. Grocki 1956-60 Edward A. Lysek 1960-66 Richard H. Demers 1966-70 Edward J. Ziemba 1970-76 Howard W. Redfern, Jr. 1976-78 John P. Moylan 1978-80 Robert F. Kumor 1980-84 Richard S. Lak 1984-88 Joseph J. Chessey 1988-97 Patrick E. Welch 1997 Richard J. Kos 1997-2004 Richard R. Goyette 2004-06 Michael D. Bissonnette 2006-14 Richard J. Kos 2014-20 John L. Vieau 2020-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1893 Dec 5: William M. E. Mellen (Dem), elected; Henry H. Harris (Rep), defeated.
  • 1894 Dec 4: William M. E. Mellen (Dem), elected; Andrew W. Gale (Rep), defeated.
  • 1905 Dec 12: Albert E. Taylor (Rep), elected.
  • 1953 Nov 3: Walter J. Trybulski, elected; William J. Asselin, defeated.
  • 1999 Nov 2: Richard J. Kos, elected unopposed.
  • 2005: Michael D. Bissonnette, elected.
  • 2013: Michael D. Bissonnette, defeated.
  • 2015: Michael D. Bissonnette, defeated.
  • 2019: Michael D. Bissonnette, defeated in primary.

    Postmasters at Chicopee, 1848-1973 (may be incomplete!)
    Amos W. Stockwell 1848-49 Loman A. Moody 1849-53 William W. Johnson 1853-61 Jonathan C. Havens 1861-68 Andrew S. Hunter 1868-84 Arthur T. Gaylord 1884-85 Simeon A. Jacobs 1885-90 George A. Edgarton 1890-94 Simeon A. Jacobs 1894-95 James Deviney 1895-99 Alexander Grant 1899-1915 Richard A. Cronan 1915-23 William H. Lilley 1923 William H. Lilley 1923-36 John F. Kennedy 1936 John F. Kennedy 1936-48 Cornelius T. O'Neil 1948-49 Cornelius T. O'Neil 1949-60 William P. Dorval 1960-62 William P. Dorval 1962-73

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