PoliticalGraveyard.com
The Political Graveyard: A Database of American History
Auburn, New York
including Aurelius
Mayors, Village Presidents, Postmasters

Mayors of Auburn, 1848-1975 (may be incomplete!)
Cyrus C. Dennis 1848 Daniel Hewson 1849 Aurelius Conkling 1850-51 Benjamin F. Hall 1852-53 Thomas Y. Howe, Jr. 1853 George Underwood 1854 Joshua Burt 1854 John L. Watrous 1855 Sylvanus H. Henry 1856 Lansing Briggs 1857-59 Christopher Morgan 1860 George Humphreys 1861-62 Jonas White, Jr. 1863 Charles G. Briggs 1864 George Humphreys 1865 John S. Fowler 1866-67 James E. Tyler 1868 John M. Hurd 1869 Eli Gallup 1870 Thomas Kirkpatrick 1871 Edward A. Thomas 1872 John S. Brown 1873 Charles N. Ross 1874 Theodore M. Pomeroy 1875-76 Alexander McCrea 1877 Martin L. Walley 1878 David M. Osborne 1879-80 Cyrenus Wheeler, Jr. 1881-86 Mortimer V. Austin 1887-88 Cyrenus Wheeler, Jr. 1889-90 David Wadsworth, Jr. 1891-92 John E. McIntosh 1893-94 Orlando Lewis 1895-1900 William C. Burgess 1901-02 Thomas M. Osborne 1903-05 E. Clarence Aiken 1906-07 C. August Koenig 1908-09 Thomas H. O'Neill 1910-13 Charles W. Brister as of 1915 Mark L. Koon as of 1916-17 Adam P. Burkhart as of 1920-21 Roy A. Weld as of 1924-27 Charles D. Osborne 1928-31 Kirk Bowen as of 1932-35 Charles D. Osborne 1936-39 Carl R. Brister 1940-43 Edward T. Boyle as of 1944-49 Robert A. Nelson 1952-55 Herbert T. Anderson as of 1956-59 Maurice I. Schwartz as of 1960-67 Paul W. Lattimore as of 1975

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1853 Mar 1: Thomas Y. Howe, Jr. (Dem), elected.
  • 1854: George Underwood, resigned.
  • 1909 Nov 2: Thomas H. O'Neill (Rep), elected.
  • 1911 Nov 7: Thomas H. O'Neill (Rep), elected.
  • 1915 Nov 2: Mark L. Koon (Dem), elected.
  • 1923 Nov 6: Roy A. Weld (Rep), elected.
  • 1927 Nov 8: Charles D. Osborne (Dem), elected.
  • 1935 Nov 5: Charles D. Osborne (Dem), elected.
  • 1939 Nov 7: Carl R. Brister (Rep), elected.
  • 1943 Nov 2: Edward T. Boyle (Dem & American Labor), elected.
  • 1951 Nov 6: Robert A. Nelson (Rep), elected.
  • 1955 Nov 8: Herbert T. Anderson (Dem), elected.
  • 1959 Nov 3: Maurice I. Schwartz (Rep), elected.

    Village Presidents of Auburn, 1815-48 (may be incomplete!)
    Joseph Colt 1815-17 David Brinkerhoff 1817-18 Horace Hills 1818-19 David Hyde 1819-22 John Grover 1822-24 William Bostwick 1824-25 Allen Warden 1825-27 Walter Weed 1827-28 Ezekial Williams 1828-30 Bradley Tuttle 1830-31 Allen Warden 1831-32 Truman J. McMaster 1832-33 Amos Underwood 1833-34 Asaph D. Leonard 1834-35 Michael S. Myers 1835-36 Isaac S. Miller 1836-37 Robert Minn 1837-38 John H. Beach 1838-39 Allen Warden 1839-40 Cyrus C. Dennis 1840-43 John L. Watrous 1843-44 George B. Chase 1844-46 Ethan A. Warden 1846-47 Daniel Hewson 1847-48

    Postmasters at Auburn, 1818-1971 (may be incomplete!)
    George B. Throop 1818-35 Hiram Bostwick 1835-40 George Rathbun 1840-41 William C. Beardsley 1841-45 Amos S. Rathbun 1845-48 Michael S. Myers 1848-49 Ethan A. Warden 1849-53 Elmore P. Ross 1853-58 Charles W. Pomeroy 1858-61 William Allen 1861-69 Clinton D. MacDougall 1869-73 John B. Richardson 1873-77 Noah P. Clark 1877-82 E. Delevan Woodruff 1882-86 William J. Moses 1886-90 John N. Knapp 1890-93 Henry L. Storke 1893-98 Paul R. Clark 1898-1915 Patrick T. Quigley 1915-24 Thomas C. Richardson 1924-36 John F. McGrath 1936 John F. McGrath 1936-52 George Train 1952-53 Charles L. Messer 1953-54 Charles L. Messer 1954-61 Joseph A. Murphy 1961-62 Thomas H. Brogan 1962-63 Thomas H. Brogan 1963-67 Raymond P. Riordan 1968-71

    Aurelius
    (renamed Auburn)

    Postmasters at Aurelius, 1798-1818 (may be incomplete!)
    Walter D. Nicoll 1798-99 Samuel Crossett 1799-1807 Enos T. Throop 1807-14 George B. Throop 1814-18

    • "Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."
    Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872    		 The Political Graveyard

    The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 320,919 politicians, living and dead.
     
      The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. Note: municipalities or communities "qualify", for Political Graveyard purposes, if they have at least half a million person-years of history, inclusive of predecessor, successor, and merged entities.  
      The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.  
      Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.  
      The official URL for this page is: https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/auburn.html .  
      Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.  
      If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the alphabetical index of politicians.  
    Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this site are 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe to constitute fair use under applicable copyright law. Where possible, each image is linked to its online source. However, requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from this site are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2023 Lawrence Kestenbaum. (4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License.
    Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by HDL. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on March 8, 2023.
    Creative Commons License Follow polgraveyard on Twitter [Amazon.com]