The Political Graveyard: Mayors and Postmasters of Brookings, South Dakota

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Mayors and Postmasters of Brookings, South Dakota

Mayors of Brookings, 1889-2011 (may be incomplete!)
William H. Roddle 1889-90 John F. Diamond 1890-91 G. J. Coller 1891-94 Philo Hall 1894-95 A. W. Hyde 1895-97 George Arthur Mathews 1897-1903 John C. Jenkins 1903-05 Frank M. Kramer 1905-07 H. B. Mathews 1907-09 W. H. Leighty 1909-13 A. Johnson 1913-15 H. B. Mathews 1915-17 W. H. Leighty 1917-20 T. I. Flittie 1920-25 Carl O. Trygstad 1925-30 I. B. Johnson 1930-35 Charles Gaukel 1935-39 Homer Dwiggens 1939-52 Lyle E. Cheever 1952-54 Homer Dwiggens 1954-60 Oliver Gottschalk 1960-62 Homer Dwiggens 1962-64 Forest G. Frie 1964-70 Orrin P. Juel 1970-80 Roger Prunty 1980-85 Gail A. Robertson 1985-90 Orrin P. Juel 1990-93 Wayne A. Hauschild 1993-99 Virgil H. Herriott 1999-2003 Scott D. Munsterman 2003-09 Tim Reed 2009-

Postmasters at Brookings, 1895-1977 (may be incomplete!)
W. H. Skinner as of 1895 J. Downing as of 1897-99 Reuben Matson as of 1901-03 Charles F. Allen as of 1905-07 George N. Breed as of 1909 Thomas R. Lyons 1965-66 Thomas R. Lyons 1966-77

Brookings
(before S.D. statehood)

Mayors of Brookings, 1881-89 (may be incomplete!)
R. S. Hadley 1881 A. A. Aiken 1882 George Arthur Mathews 1883-84 Herman H. Natwick 1884-87 George Arthur Mathews 1887-89

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