The Political Graveyard: Little Falls, New York

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Little Falls, New York
including Rockton
Mayors, Postmasters

Mayors of Little Falls, 1896-1966 (may be incomplete!)
Charles King as of 1896 Hadley Jones as of 1900 Edward H. Kingsbury as of 1901-03 E. H. Douglas as of 1904-05 Eugene Walrath as of 1906-07 Augustus B. Santry 1908-09 Timothy Dasey 1910-11 Frank H. Shall as of 1915 Abram Zoller as of 1916 Nelson R. Gilbert as of 1920-21 John J. Kearns as of 1925 Joseph S. Casler as of 1926-27 John M. Tanzer as of 1928-31 Augustus B. Santry as of 1932-35 John B. McGuire, Jr. as of 1936-39 Richard B. Conley 1940-43 Clifton E. Wagoner as of 1944-47 John H. Ingersoll as of 1948-49 Willard M. Topper as of 1950-55 John W. George as of 1956-59 Theodore S. Wind as of 1966

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1909 Nov 2: Timothy Dasey (Dem), elected.

1911 Nov 7: Frank H. Shall (Dem), elected.

1921 Nov 8: Cornelius Haley (Dem), elected.

1927 Nov 8: John M. Tanzer (Rep), elected.

1929 Nov 5: John M. Tanzer (Rep), elected.

1935 Nov 5: John B. McGuire, Jr. (Dem), elected.

1937 Nov 2: John B. McGuire, Jr. (Dem), elected; Edwin A. Nellis (Rep), defeated.

1939 Nov 7: Richard B. Conley (Dem), elected.

1943 Nov 2: Clifton E. Wagoner (Dem & Rep & American Labor), elected.

1949 Nov 8: Willard M. Topper (Rep), elected.

1951 Nov 6: Willard M. Topper (Rep), elected.

1955 Sep 13: Irving L. Nightingale (Rep), nominated; Albert Scheible (Rep), defeated in primary; Nellis B. Bronner (Rep), defeated in primary.

1955 Nov 8: John W. George (Dem), elected; Irving L. Nightingale (Rep), defeated.

1959 Nov 3: John W. George (Dem), elected.

Postmasters at Little Falls, 1802-1972 (may be incomplete!)
William Alexander 1802-13 Samuel Smith 1813-18 Anson Hollister 1818-19 Samuel Smith 1819-20 Anson Hollister 1820-21 Edward C. Pinney 1821-27 Frederick Lansing 1827-41 Martin Bettinger 1841-45 Edmund G. Chapin 1845-49 Joseph Lee 1849-50 Morris E. Fuller 1852-53 Horatio N. Johnson 1853-59 Frederick Lansing 1859-61 William M. Dorr 1861-70 Willard A. Stafford 1870-82 Alonzo H. Greene 1882-86 William R. Chapple 1886-90 Victor Adams 1890-94 Alonzo O. Casler 1894-99 Nelson E. Ransom 1899-1907 Harry L. Becker 1907-11 Nelson E. Ransom 1911-16 William H. Nolan 1916-21 Frederick W. Ashenhurst 1921-34 John J. Lynch 1934-35 William H. McLaughlin 1935-44 Anne Shall 1944-52 Herman J. Misner 1952-72

Rockton
(renamed Little Falls)

Postmasters at Rockton, 1850-52 (may be incomplete!)
Joseph Lee 1850-51 Morris E. Fuller 1851-52

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