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Mayors and Postmasters of Moberly, Missouri

Mayors of Moberly, 1868-2023 (may be incomplete!)
A. T. Franklin 1868-69 A. T. Bunker 1870-71 B. Y. N. Clarkston 1871-72 J. B. Freeman 1872-73 Thomas P. White 1873-74 J. H. Burkholder 1874-75 W. L. Durbin 1875-76 John Cook Hickerson 1876-77 W. T. McCane 1878-79 J. H. Burkholder 1879-80 G. L. Bassett 1880-81 P. J. Carmody 1881-82 D. S. Forney 1883-85 A. B. Thompson 1886-87 Theodore F. Priest 1887-88 R. R. Haynes 1888-90 J. W. Ragsdale 1891-93 J. H. Babcock 1894-95 Willard P. Cave 1895-98 Alexander H. Waller 1899-1900 Willard P. Cave 1901-02 A. C. Dingle 1903-06 Rolla R. Rothwell 1907-11 Willard P. Cave 1911-13 Rolla R. Rothwell 1913-15 I. F. Harlan 1915-19 J. T. Cross 1919-21 A. C. Dingle 1921-23 W. P. Vandegrift 1923 Rolla R. Rothwell 1923-25 Stokley Porter Towles 1925 Jerry M. Jeffries 1925-27 Rolla R. Rothwell 1927-31 Luther Ove Nickell 1931-35 Edward A. Willott 1935-37 Thomas J. Tydings 1937-43 Martin J. Kehoe 1943-44 Frank L. McCormick 1944-52 William C. Orscheln 1952-53 Thomas Michael Riffel 1953-54 Earl B. Noel 1954-60 Robert Hulen Roberts 1960-62 Henry A. Koch 1962-66 Will Ben Sims 1966-67 Howard S. Frisbie 1967-72 Charles W. Carter 1972-76 Lionel Thompson 1976-79 Donald R. Schaffer 1979-83 Jack Valentine 1983-88 Larry K. Noel 1988-97 James W. Stone 1997-2000 Lawrence Rucker 2000-07 Don Burton 2007-10 Bob Riley 2010-13 John W. Kimmons, Jr. 2013-15 Bob Riley 2015-17 Greg Walker 2017 Jerry Jeffrey 2017-23 Tim Brubaker 2023-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1911 Feb 12: Willard P. Cave (Dem), nominated unopposed.
  • 1911 Apr 4: Willard P. Cave (Dem), elected unopposed.
  • 1913 Feb 11: Rolla R. Rothwell (Dem), nominated; J. E. Hinman (Dem), defeated in primary.
  • 1913 Apr 1: Rolla R. Rothwell (Dem), elected unopposed.
  • 1915 Jan 7: Rolla R. Rothwell, resigned.
  • 1915 Feb 25: I. F. Harlan (Dem), nominated; William Maslen (Dem), defeated in primary.
  • 1915 Apr 6: I. F. Harlan (Dem), elected unopposed.
  • 1917 Feb 6: I. F. Harlan (Dem), nominated unopposed.
  • 1917 Apr 3: I. F. Harlan (Dem), elected; P. H. Shivell (Rep), defeated.
  • 1919 Feb 11: J. T. Cross (Dem), nominated; T. D. Mangus (Dem), defeated in primary.
  • 1919 Apr 1: J. T. Cross (Dem), elected unopposed.
  • 1921 Feb 1: A. C. Dingle (Dem), nominated; T. D. Mangus (Dem), defeated in primary; Frank M. Grimes (Dem), defeated in primary.
  • 1921 Apr 5: A. C. Dingle (Dem), elected; Jack M. Sandison (Rep), defeated.
  • 1923 Feb 6: Rolla R. Rothwell (Dem), nominated; Arthur M. Furnish (Dem), defeated in primary.
  • 1923 Mar 23: A. C. Dingle, died in office.
  • 1923 Apr 3: Rolla R. Rothwell (Dem), elected unopposed.

    Postmasters at Moberly, 1887-1901 (may be incomplete!)
    William A. Wight as of 1887 Thomas S. Kelly as of 1901

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