The Political Graveyard: Mayors and Postmasters of Chester, Pennsylvania

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Mayors and Postmasters of Chester, Pennsylvania

Mayors of Chester, 1866-2020 (may be incomplete!)
John Larkin, Jr. 1866-72 J. L. Forwood 1872-81 James Barton, Jr. 1881-84 J. L. Forwood 1884-87 Joseph R. T. Coates 1887-93 John B. Hinkson 1893-96 Crosby M. Black 1896-99 Daniel W. Jefferis 1899-1902 Howard H. Houston 1902-05 William H. Berry 1905 Samuel E. Turner 1906 Samuel R. Crothers 1906-08 David M. Johnson 1908-11 William Ward, Jr. 1911-15 Wesley S. McDowell 1915-19 William T. Ramsey 1920-24 Samuel E. Turner 1924-31 T. Woodward Trainer 1931-32 William Ward, Jr. 1932-39 Clifford H. Peoples 1939-43 Ralph F. Swarts 1943-56 Joseph L. Eyre 1956-63 James H. Gorbey 1964-67 John H. Nacrelli 1968-79 Joseph F. Battle, Jr. 1979-86 Willie Mae James Leake 1986-91 Barbara Bohannan-Sheppard 1992-95 Aaron Wilson 1996-98 Dominic F. Pileggi 1999-2002 Wendell N. Butler, Jr. 2002-12 John Linder 2012-16 Thaddeus Kirkland 2016-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1905 Dec 30: William H. Berry, resigned.

1906 Feb 20: Samuel R. Crothers (Rep), elected.

Postmasters at Chester, 1784-1973 (may be incomplete!)
John Harper 1784-88 Miles McCarty 1788-97 William Anderson 1797-98 Aaron Cobourn 1798-1811 Thomas D. Anderson 1812-13 Mary Davenport 1814-18 Mark Winter 1818-22 Joshua A. Pearson 1822-24 Peter Deshong 1824-28 Mary Deshong 1828-37 Caleb Peirce 1837-41 William W. Doyle 1841-42 Charlotte Doyle 1842-57 George W. Weaver 1857-61 Young S. Walter 1861-65 Joseph R. T. Coates 1865-69 William G. Price 1869-73 William H. Martin 1873-81 John A. Wallace 1881-85 Henry G. Ashmead 1885-89 Robert Chadwick 1889-94 John L. Garrett 1894-98 Thomas H. Higgins 1898-1902 John A. Wallace 1902-12 James M. Hamilton 1912-14 William H. Nelson 1914-23 Walter M. Jones 1923 John K. Hagerty 1923-24 John K. Hagerty 1924-35 Isaac A. Hiorth 1935-36 Isaac A. Hiorth 1936-50 Lawrence A. Conner, Jr. 1950-53 F. Levis Stringfellow 1953-54 F. Levis Stringfellow 1954-58 Emil F. Baiocco 1958-59 Emil F. Baiocco 1959-73

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