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Columbia, South Carolina
Mayors, Postmasters, Collectors of Internal Revenue

Mayors of Columbia, 1953-54 (may be incomplete!)
J. Macfie Anderson as of 1953-54

Postmasters at Columbia, 1792-1977 (may be incomplete!)
Daniel Constable 1792-94 Samuel Green 1794-98 James Sanders Guignard 1798-1801 Charles Williamson 1801-02 Samuel Green 1802-33 Gersham Chapman 1833-35 Daniel Faust 1835 Benjamin Rawls 1835-41 A. H. Gladden 1841-45 Benjamin F. Rawls 1845-48 James B. Glass 1848-65 James C. Janney 1865-69 C. M. Wilder 1869-85 Wade H. Gibbes 1885-89 Virgil P. Clayton 1889-90 William Wallace 1890-97 Joshua F. Ensor 1897-1907 George H. Huggins 1907-16 William H. Coleman 1916-19 Thomas B. Madden 1919-20 Thomas B. Madden 1920-34 Eric C. Goza 1934-35 Eric C. Goza 1935-61 William O. Callahan 1961 William O. Callahan 1961-67 Philip J. Rosenberger 1967 Joseph William Douglas 1967-68 Joseph William Douglas 1968-77

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1907 Aug 9: Joshua F. Ensor, died in office.

    U.S. Collectors of Internal Revenue at Columbia, 1879-1951 (may be incomplete!)
    Ellery M. Brayton as of 1879 Eugene A. Webster as of 1891 Micah J. Jenkins as of 1909 D. C. Heyward 1913-19 John F. Jones as of 1927 Victor Q. Hambright as of 1932 William P. Bowers as of 1941-51

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