The Political Graveyard: Sanford, North Carolina

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Sanford, North Carolina
including Jonesboro, Rollins' Store
Mayors, Postmasters

Mayors of Sanford, 1953-2009 (may be incomplete!)
A. E. White as of 1953 E. W. Fields as of 1954-55 Harold T. Makepeace as of 1956

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

2009 Nov 3: Cornelia Olive, elected unopposed.

Postmasters at Sanford, 1872-1975 (may be incomplete!)
Thomas Rollins 1872-73 Robert M. Brown 1873-76 Henry T. Rollins 1876-79 Robert M. Brown 1879-80 James A. McIver 1880-81 Benjamin I. Howze 1881-82 John S. McIver 1883-85 Lodwick T. Brown 1885-89 George H. Makepeace, Jr. 1889-93 John W. Scott, Jr. 1893-96 Kate H. Scott 1896-97 Isaac H. Lutterloh 1897-1904 Samuel M. Jones 1904-13 Samuel Vance Scott 1913-22 John W. Gilliam 1922-31 Ralph A. Kennedy 1931-32 Ralph A. Kennedy 1932-35 Samuel Vance Scott 1935 Annie L. Scott 1935-62 Edward A. Griffen 1962 Edward A. Griffen 1962-75

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1896 Feb 8: John W. Scott, Jr., died in office.

Jonesboro
(now part of Sanford)

Postmasters at Jonesboro, 1865-1948 (may be incomplete!)
William Rollins 1865-67 Thomas Rollins 1867-72 James Dalrymple 1872 Sion H. Buchanan 1872-75 George S. Cole 1875 Sion H. Buchanan 1875-82 Eli N. Howard 1882 Sion H. Buchanan 1882-84 Daniel B. Buchanan 1884-85 George B. Caddell 1885-89 Joseph B. Buchanan 1889-93 Redin Bryan 1893-97 Sion H. Buchanan 1897-1901 Joseph B. Buchanan 1901-04 Burwell F. Godfrey 1904-14 B. Rufus Avent 1914-23 John W. Kelly 1923-32 Charles M. Rosser 1932-36 Robert A. Watson, Sr. 1936-48

Rollins' Store
(now part of Sanford)

Postmasters at Rollins' Store, 1841-65 (may be incomplete!)
Thomas Rollins 1841-65

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