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Mayors and Postmasters of Chapel Hill, North Carolina


Mayors of Chapel Hill, 1869-2022 (may be incomplete!)
Hugh Blair Guthrie 1869-72 John H. Watson 1872 John W. Carr 1873-74 John White 1874 Andrew Mickel 1874-76 John H. Watson 1876-79 Merritt Cheek 1879-82 Jones Watson 1882-83 John H. Watson 1883-84 A. J. McDade 1884-85 John H. Watson 1885-87 William N. Pritchard 1887-88 A. J. McDade 1888-91 John H. Watson 1891-95 Algernon S. Barbee 1895-1901 James C. MacRae, Jr. 1901-03 William S. Roberson 1903-07 Algernon S. Barbee 1907-11 William S. Roberson 1911-13 L. P. McLendon 1913-14 William S. Roberson 1914-27 Zebulon Council 1927-33 John M. Foushee 1933-42 R. W. Madry 1942-49 Edwin S. Lanier 1949-54 Oliver K. Cornwell 1954-61 Roland McClamroch 1961-69 Howard Lee 1969-75 James Wallace 1975-79 Joseph L. Nassif 1979-85 James Wallace 1985-87 Jonathan Howes 1987-91 Kenneth Broun 1991-95 Rosemary Waldorf 1995-2001 Kevin Foy 2001-09 Mark Kleinschmidt 2009-15 Pam Hemminger 2015-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1969 May 6: Howard Lee, elected.
  • 2009 Nov 3: Mark Kleinschmidt, elected; Matt Czajkowski, defeated; Augustus Cho, defeated; Kevin Wolff, defeated.
  • 2015: Pam Hemminger, elected.
  • 2017 Nov 7: Pam Hemminger, elected.
  • 2019: Pam Hemminger, elected.
  • 2021: Pam Hemminger, elected.


    Postmasters at Chapel Hill, 1816-1908 (may be incomplete!)
    Edward Robson as of 1816 T. M. Kirkland as of 1881-85 W. P. Mallett as of 1887-89 William N. Pritchard 1896-1900 Herbert Lloyd 1900-04 William A. Lloyd 1904-08


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