The Political Graveyard: Mayors and Postmasters of Canandaigua, New York

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Mayors and Postmasters of Canandaigua, New York

Mayors of Canandaigua, 1915-66 (may be incomplete!)
Peter P. Turner as of 1915-16 Fred H. Partridge 1920-21 William J. MacFarlane 1922-27 H. Wilbert Closs 1928-33 Frank A. DeGraff 1934-35 George McG. Hayes as of 1938-44 George McG. Hayes as of 1947-49 George W. Urstadt as of 1950-55 Walter C. Benham 1956-57 Richard M. Bottorf as of 1959 T. Hamilton Kennedy as of 1966

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1921 Nov 8: William J. MacFarlane (Rep), elected.

1925 Nov 3: William J. MacFarlane (Rep), elected.

1927 Nov 8: H. Wilbert Closs (Rep), elected.

1929 Nov 5: H. Wilbert Closs (Rep), elected.

1933 Nov 7: Frank A. DeGraff (Rep), elected.

1935 Nov 5: Frank A. DeGraff (Rep), elected.

1937 Nov 2: George McG. Hayes (Rep), elected.

1939 Nov 7: George McG. Hayes (Rep), elected.

1943 Nov 2: George McG. Hayes (Rep & Dem & American Labor), elected.

1949 Nov 8: George W. Urstadt (Rep), elected.

1951 Nov 6: George W. Urstadt (Rep), elected.

1955 Nov 8: Walter C. Benham (Rep), elected; Francis H. McElwee, Jr. (Dem), defeated.

1959 Nov 3: Arthur Munson (Rep), elected.

Postmasters at Canandaigua, 1816-1947 (may be incomplete!)
John C. Spencer as of 1816 Albert Lester as of 1836 Albert G. Murray as of 1874 Frank O. Chamberlain as of 1881-82 William McNeilly as of 1887 Nathan J. Milliken 1890-94 Frank R. Beecher as of 1897 John Raines, Jr. as of 1901-15 Sanford W. Abbey as of 1916 John J. Mattison as of 1917-21 Edwin P. Gardner as of 1925-28 John C. Monahan as of 1935-37 Albert J. Linehan as of 1943-47

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