The Political Graveyard: Woonsocket, Rhode Island

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Woonsocket, Rhode Island
including Woonsocket Falls
Mayors, Postmasters

Mayors of Woonsocket, 1889-2021 (may be incomplete!)
George H. Grant 1889-90 Daniel B. Pond 1890-93 Aram J. Pothier 1894-96 George W. Greene 1896 George Batchelor 1897-99 George W. Greene 1899-1902 Alphonse Gaulin 1903-05 Adelard Archambault 1905-07 William O. Park 1907-09 James Mullen 1909-11 Raphael P. Daignault 1911-14 David J. Snyder 1915-17 Adelard Archambault 1917-19 Adelard L. Soucy 1919-27 J. Hector Paquin 1927-31 Felix A. Toupin 1931-37 Joseph Pratt 1937-39 Felix A. Toupin 1939-41 Henri A. Roberge 1941-42 Ernest E. Dupre 1943-49 Guillaume L. Parent 1949-53 Kevin K. Coleman 1953-57 Jean-Paul Soucy 1957-59 Kevin K. Coleman 1959-65 A. Edgar Lussier 1965-71 John A. Cummings 1971-75 Gerard J. Bouley 1975-81 Gaston A. Ayotte, Jr. 1981-85 Charles C. Baldelli 1985-89 Francis L. Lanctot 1989-95 Susan D. Menard 1995-2009 Leo T. Fontaine 2009-13 Lisa Baldelli-Hunt 2013-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1910 Nov 8: James Mullen, elected.

1930 Nov 4: Felix A. Toupin (Dem), elected.

Postmasters at Woonsocket, 1874-1976 (may be incomplete!)
Stephen H. Brown 1874-79 George S. Read 1879-88 Frank A. Campbell 1888-92 Charles N. Brown 1892-93 Frank A. Campbell 1893-97 John W. Cass 1897-1910 Moses R. Newell 1910-14 Thomas F. Cavanaugh 1914-24 Frank A. Rixford 1924-36 Antonio Prince 1936-64 Hector J. Fontaine, Jr. 1964-65 Hector J. Fontaine, Jr. 1965-76

Woonsocket Falls
(part of Woonsocket)

Postmasters at Woonsocket Falls, 1827-74 (may be incomplete!)
Daniel A. Daniels 1827-41 John Burnham 1841-61 William Lindsay 1861-62 John Burnham 1862-65 Stephen H. Brown 1865-74

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