The Political Graveyard: Mayors and Postmasters of Newport, Rhode Island

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Mayors and Postmasters of Newport, Rhode Island

Mayors of Newport, 1853-1954 (may be incomplete!)
Robert B. Cranston 1853 George Henry Calvert 1854 Samuel R. Honey 1892 Daniel B. Fearing as of 1894 Patrick J. Boyle as of 1911 Clark Burdick as of 1917-18 Mortimer A. Sullivan as of 1931 Dean J. Lewis as of 1953-54

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1910 Dec 6: Patrick J. Boyle, elected.

1930 Nov 4: Mortimer A. Sullivan (Dem), elected.

Postmasters at Newport, 1745-1976 (may be incomplete!)
Thomas Vernon 1745-75 Nathaniel Otis 1775-76 Solomon Southwick 1776-84 Jacob Richardson 1784-1813 Benjamin R. Mumford 1813-27 Robert B. Cranston 1827-33 Robert R. Carr 1833-41 Asher Robbins 1841-45 Joseph Joslen 1845-49 Timothy Coggeshall 1849-53 Joseph Joslen 1853-57 James Atkinson 1857-61 Thomas Coggeshall 1861-87 Lewis Brown 1887-90 Henry H. Fay 1890-94 Dalton E. Young 1894-98 Albert C. Landers 1898-1911 Clark Burdick 1911-15 John B. Sullivan 1915-23 Thatcher T. Bowler 1923-24 Thatcher T. Bowler 1924-36 James J. Martin 1936-51 Joseph S. Lehane 1951 Joseph S. Lehane 1951-63 William P. Harrington 1963-64 William P. Harrington 1964-76

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1845 Feb 25: Asher Robbins, died in office.

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