The Political Graveyard: Mayors and Postmasters of Dover, New Jersey

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Mayors and Postmasters of Dover, New Jersey

Mayors of Dover, 1869-2009 (may be incomplete!)
George Richards 1869-71 Anson G. P. Segur 1871-73 George Richards 1873-87 Sedgewick R. Bennett 1887-91 Horace L. Dunham 1891-93 George McCracken 1893-95 Ferdinand V. Wolfe 1895-96 George Pierson 1897-99 Ferdinand V. Wolfe 1899 Frederick H. Beach 1899-1901 Harry S. Peters 1901-03 Isaac W. Searing 1903-06 George Pierson 1906-10 John Mulligan 1910-14 William L. R. Lynd 1914-16 Richard W. Whitham 1916-20 William L. R. Lynd 1920-22 William H. Hosking 1922-26 Thomas O. Bassett 1926-30 John Roach, Jr. 1930-61 Robert B. Woodhull 1961-62 Leslie P. Stringer 1962-66 Willard M. Hedden 1966-68 Edward R. Horan 1968-72 Willard M. Hedden 1972-74 L. William Newkirk 1974 Richard M. Newman 1974-78 Jack Rice 1978-82 Aldo Cicchetti 1982-92 Stephen Shukailo 1992-2000 Richard M. Newman 2000-04 Javier Marin 2004-06 James P. Dodd 2006-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1909 Nov 2: George Pierson (Dem), elected.

1943 Nov 2: John Roach, Jr. (Rep), elected.

1945 Nov 6: John Roach, Jr. (Rep), elected.

1961 Nov 26: John Roach, Jr., died in office.

1974: L. William Newkirk, resigned.

Postmasters at Dover, 1887-1903 (may be incomplete!)
G. C. Hinchman as of 1887 James S. Melick as of 1889 George McCracken as of 1897 G. C. Hinchman as of 1901-03

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