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Mayors and Postmasters of Gastonia, North Carolina


Mayors of Gastonia, 1919-57 (may be incomplete!)
R. Gregg Cherry as of 1919-23 Emery B. Denny 1929-37 W. Harrelson Yancey as of 1952-55 Leon L. Schneider as of 1956-57


Postmasters at Gastonia, 1873-1976 (may be incomplete!)
Franklin S. Hanna 1873-81 Robert M. Martin 1881-83 Benjamin G. Bradley 1883-85 James H. Fayssoux 1885-87 James E. Page 1887-89 Laban L. Jenkins 1889-93 William F. Marshall 1893-98 Laban L. Jenkins 1898-1903 Claudius D. Holland 1903-06 Benjamin G. Bradley 1906-10 E. Grant Pasour 1910-14 John R. Rankin 1914-20 James W. Atkins 1920 Stephen B. Dolley 1920-21 Francis A. Slate 1921-25 Romeo H. Long 1925-26 Roger P. Washam 1926-33 William T. Webster 1933 Miles A. Carpenter 1933 Clarence W. Boshamer 1933-34 Clarence W. Boshamer 1934-63 Willifred M. Farris 1963 Willifred M. Farris 1963-67 Joseph A. Allen 1967-68 Joseph A. Allen 1968-76

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