The Political Graveyard: Mayors and Postmasters of Springfield, Massachusetts

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Mayors and Postmasters of Springfield, Massachusetts

Mayors of Springfield, 1852-2012 (may be incomplete!)
Caleb Rice 1852-53 Philos B. Tyler 1854 Eliphalet Trask 1855 Ansel Phelps, Jr. 1856-58 William B. Calhoun 1859 Daniel L. Harris 1860 Stephen C. Bemis 1861-62 Henry Alexander, Jr. 1864-65 Albert Briggs 1865-67 Charles A. Winchester 1868-69 William L. Smith 1870-71 Samuel B. Spooner 1872-73 John M. Stebbins 1874 Emerson Wight 1875-78 Lewis J. Powers 1879-80 William H. Haile 1881 Edwin W. Ladd 1882 Henry M. Phillips 1883-85 Edwin D. Metcalf 1886 Elisha B. Maynard 1887-88 Edward S. Bradford 1889-91 Lawson Sibley 1892 Edmund P. Kendrick 1893-94 Charles L. Long 1895 Newrie D. Winter 1896-97 Henry S. Dickinson 1898 Dwight O. Gilmore 1899 William P. Hayes 1900-01 Ralph W. Ellis 1902 Everett E. Stone 1903-04 Francke W. Dickinson 1905-06 William E. Sanderson 1907-09 Edward H. Lathrop 1910-12 John A. Denison 1913-14 Frank E. Stacy 1915-18 Arthur A. Adams 1919-20 Edwin F. Leonard 1921-24 Fordis C. Parker 1925-29 Dwight R. Winter 1930-33 Henry Martens 1934-37 Roger L. Putnam 1938-43 J. Albin Anderson, Jr. 1944-45 Daniel B. Brunton 1946-57 Thomas J. O'Connor, Jr. 1958-61 Charles V. Ryan 1962-67 Frank H. Freedman 1968-72 Theodore E. Dimauro 1972 William C. Sullivan 1973-77 Theodore E. Dimauro 1978-83 Richard E. Neal 1983-89 Mary Hurley 1989-91 Robert Markel 1992-95 Michael J. Albano 1996-2003 Charles V. Ryan 2004-08 Domenic J. Sarno 2008-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1894 Dec 4: Charles L. Long (Rep), elected; S. D. Sherwood (Dem), defeated.

1912 Dec 3: John A. Denison (Rep), elected; Edward H. Lathrop (Dem), defeated.

1918 Dec 3: Arthur A. Adams (Rep), elected.

1939 Nov 7: Roger L. Putnam (Dem), elected; Donald M. Macauley (Rep), defeated.

1949: Vernon E. Bradley, defeated.

1953 Nov 3: Daniel B. Brunton (Dem), elected; Wendell P. Chamberlain (Rep), defeated.

1995: Charles V. Ryan, defeated.

1999 Nov 2: Michael J. Albano, elected unopposed.

2007: Charles V. Ryan, defeated.

Postmasters at Springfield, 1792-1981 (may be incomplete!)
Ezra Waldo Weld 1792 James Reed Hutchins 1792-94 John Worthington Hooker 1794-96 Francis Stebbins 1796-99 James Byers, Jr. 1799-1806 Daniel Lumbard 1806-29 Albert Morgan 1829-42 Solomon Warriner 1842-43 Harvey Chapin 1843-44 Galen Ames 1844-45 Harvey Chapin 1845-49 William Stowe 1849-53 Abijah W. Chapin 1853-61 William Stowe 1861-72 Horace C. Lee 1872-84 Edward P. Chapin 1884-86 John L. Rice 1886-90 Henry M. Phillips 1890-94 John H. Clune 1894-98 Louis C. Hyde 1898-1914 Thomas J. Costello 1914-23 William K. Kaynor 1923-28 James P. Smith 1928 James P. Smith 1928-33 Thomas J. Ashe 1933-35 Thomas J. Ashe 1935-57 Arthur B. Morin 1958-59 Arthur B. Morin 1959-81

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