The Political Graveyard: Calais, Maine

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Calais, Maine
including Red Beach, Milltown
Mayors, Postmasters

Mayors of Calais, 1850-1944 (may be incomplete!)
George Downes 1850-51 Frederick A. Pike 1852 W. H. Tyler 1853-54 W. D. Lawrence 1855-58 George Downes 1859 D. K. Chase 1859-61 Joseph Granger 1862-63 C. R. Whidden 1864-65 F. Williams 1866-67 S. T. King 1868 J. S. Hall 1869 G. M. Wentworth 1870-71 William Duren 1872-75 L. G. Downes 1876 P. M. Pirington 1877 W. H. Boardman 1878-82 John G. Murchie 1883-84 George M. Hanson 1885 M. N. McKusick 1886-88 C. A. McCullough 1889-91 George A. Murchie 1892-96 Charles E. Swan 1897-98 Oliver S. Tarbox 1899-1900 Brono Kalish 1901 J. M. Johnson 1902-04 George M. Hanson 1905 M. N. McKusick 1906-07 William J. Fowler 1908-10 Herbert J. Dudley 1911-12 Ralph T. Horton 1913-14 James S. McCrea 1915-16 Walter N. Miner 1917-18 Percy L. Lord 1919 Fred V. Pickard 1920 William J. Fowler 1921-25 Ernest A. Woodman 1926-28 Ned H. Murchie 1929-33 Edward J. Corrigan 1934 Clarence B. Beckett 1935 Thomas J. Doyle 1937 Guy L. Thomas 1938 Ernest A. Woodman as of 1944

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1859: George Downes, resigned.

Postmasters at Calais, 1816-1982 (may be incomplete!)
Stephen Brewer as of 1816 Edgar Whiddon 1860-61 D. B. Barnard 1861 M. N. McKusick 1882-85 W. W. Brown as of 1889 Willard H. Pike as of 1891-93 W. R. Ker as of 1895 H. M. Bates as of 1897 Willard H. Pike as of 1899-1901 George Downes as of 1903-11 Ralph T. Horton as of 1931 Edward J. Doyle 1935 Edward J. Doyle 1935-50 Francis Driscoll 1950-54 Norman F. Townsend 1954-59 Henry A. Gillespie 1959-62 Samuel A. Saunders 1962-63 Samuel A. Saunders 1963-82

Red Beach
(now Calais)

Postmasters at Red Beach, 1860-1931 (may be incomplete!)
Joshua Pettigrove as of 1860-61 Oliver A. Jenneson as of 1893 John L. Harvell as of 1895-97 Oliver A. Jenneson as of 1899-1901 Evelyn A. Newton as of 1931

Milltown

Postmasters at Milltown, 1860-1901 (may be incomplete!)
L. W. Kelsey as of 1860-61 Charles H. Bobb as of 1901

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