The Political Graveyard: Mayors and Postmasters of Allentown, Pennsylvania

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Mayors and Postmasters of Allentown, Pennsylvania

Mayors of Allentown, 1867-2010 (may be incomplete!)
Samuel McHose 1867-69 Tilghman H. Good 1869-73 Theodore C. Yeager 1873-74 Herman Schuon 1874 Tilghman H. Good 1874-76 Edward B. Young 1876-78 Alfred J. Martin 1878-80 Edwin G. Martin 1880-84 Edwin S. Shimer 1884-86 Walter K. Rhue 1886-88 Henry W. Alliston 1888-90 Samuel D. Lehr 1890-93 Henry W. Alliston 1893-96 Fred E. Lewis 1896-99 James L. Schadt 1899-1902 Fred E. Lewis 1902-05 Albert J. Yost 1905-07 Charles D. Schaeffer 1907-08 Henry G. Styles 1908 Herbert H. Herbst 1908-09 Charles O. Hunsicker 1909-11 Charles W. Rinn 1912-15 Alfred L. Reichenbach 1916-19 Malcolm W. Gross 1920-32 Fred E. Lewis 1932-36 Malcolm W. Gross 1936-40 George F. Erich 1940-44 Brighton C. Diefenderfer 1944-48 Donald V. Hock 1948-52 Brighton C. Diefenderfer 1952-56 Donald V. Hock 1956-60 John T. Gross 1960-64 F. Willard Harper 1964-66 Ray B. Bracy 1966-70 Clifford S. Bartholomew 1970-74 Joseph S. Daddona 1974-78 Frank Fischl 1978-82 Joseph S. Daddona 1982-90 William L. Heydt 1990-2002 Roy C. Afflerbach 2002-06 Ed Pawlowski 2006-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1874 Jan 14: Theodore C. Yeager, died in office.

1907 Apr 16: Albert J. Yost, died in office.

1908 Nov 8: Henry G. Styles, died in office.

1964 Sep 3: John T. Gross, died in office.

Postmasters at Allentown, 1802-1972 (may be incomplete!)
I. George Savitz 1802-08 Jacob Martin 1808-14 Charles L. Hutter 1814-20 George Hauke 1820-24 Henry Weaver 1824-35 Edwin W. Hutter 1836 Robert E. Wright 1836-41 Augustus L. Ruhe 1841-44 Robert E. Wright 1844-45 Edmund R. Newhard 1845-49 Maria E. Hornbeck 1849-62 Tilghman H. Good 1862-69 David R. Diefenderfer 1869-77 Robert Iredell, Jr. 1877-85 George T. Gross 1885-90 John Stopp 1890-94 Allen T. Frederick 1894-98 Milton P. Schautz 1898-1910 Charles S. Martin 1910 J. Herbert Kohler 1910-14 Martin Klingler 1914-22 Joseph P. Fry 1922-23 Joseph P. Fry 1923-27 Arthur J. Nagle 1927-35 Edward S. Diehl 1935-37 George N. Horlacher 1937-43 Edward S. Diehl 1943-44 Edward S. Diehl 1944-45 Henry K. Bauman 1945-46 Henry K. Bauman 1946-52 Charles J. J. Rupp 1952-53 James W. Daubert 1953-56 James W. Daubert 1956-72

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