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Mayors and Postmasters of Big Rapids, Michigan

Mayors of Big Rapids, 1880-2008 (may be incomplete!)
W. Irving Latimer 1870 Dan W. Rowe as of 1931-32 William C. Krupp 1938-40 Dan W. Rowe 1940-42 Marvin A. West 1942 Walter E. Lypps as of 1951-52 Donald Rankin as of 1953-56 Donald M. Page as of 1967 Edward Burch as of 2005 Mark Warba as of 2008

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1880 Apr 5: W. A. Hendry (Rep), elected.
  • 1889 Apr 1: D. F. Comstock (Rep), elected.
  • 1900 Apr 2: E. C. Newcombe (Rep), elected; W. T. Dodge (Dem), defeated.
  • 1903 Apr 6: E. C. Newcombe (Rep), elected.
  • 1904 Apr 4: D. C. Morrill (Rep), elected.
  • 1906 Apr 2: C. W. Doe (Dem), elected.
  • 1907 Apr 1: George A. Wright (Dem), elected.
  • 1908 Apr 6: William P. Nisbett (Dem), elected.
  • 1909 Apr 5: A. V. Young (Rep), elected.
  • 1910 Apr 4: H. L. Drescher (Rep), elected.
  • 1912 Apr 1: W. D. Hopkinson (Rep), elected.
  • 1918 Apr 1: Albert B. Cogger, elected.
  • 1922 Apr 3: B. W. Sloss, elected.
  • 1932 Apr 4: Dan W. Rowe, elected; Thomas P. Treynor, defeated.
  • 1936 Apr 6: James B. Campbell, elected; Dan W. Rowe, defeated.
  • 1938 Apr 4: William C. Krupp, elected.
  • 1940 Apr 1: Dan W. Rowe, elected.
  • 1942 Apr 6: Marvin A. West, elected; Dan W. Rowe, defeated.

    Postmasters at Big Rapids, 1871-1936 (may be incomplete!)
    Thomas Lazell as of 1871-73 C. D. Crandell as of 1881-83 Joseph H. Kilbourne as of 1887-91 Hiram E. Hardy as of 1901-11 Aaron W. Miles 1924-36

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