The Political Graveyard: Mayors and Postmasters of Denton, Texas

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Mayors and Postmasters of Denton, Texas

Mayors of Denton, 1869-2021 (may be incomplete!)
J. B. Sawyer 1869-70 W. J. Austin 1870-71 Dempsey Jackson 1871-72 W. C. Bobbett 1872-73 R. B. Coleman 1873-74 D. J. Edelman 1874-76 J. W. Jagoe 1876-77 M. W. Davenport 1877-78 John Allen Withers 1878-79 Thomas E. Hogg 1879-80 I. D. Ferguson 1880-81 D. N. Dobson 1881-82 C. L. Herbert, Jr. 1882 D. A. Robinson 1882-83 T. W. Abney 1883-85 Oliver P. Poe 1885-88 Emory C. Smith 1888-90 Joseph A. Carroll 1890-91 M. W. Davenport 1891 Oliver P. Poe 1891-94 F. M. Davidson 1894-96 Oliver P. Poe 1896-1904 W. L. McCormick 1904-06 T. J. Simmons 1906-08 Ed F. Bates 1908-10 Oliver P. Poe 1910-12 Ed F. Bates 1912-14 W. L. Foreman 1914-16 S. G. Gary 1916-17 P. J. Beyette 1917-19 H. V. Hennen 1919-25 B. W. McKenzie 1926-33 J. L. Wright 1934-38 Lee Preston 1938-46 J. L. Yarbrough 1946-50 Mark Hannah 1950-54 J. L. Yarbrough 1954-56 Jack Bryson 1956-59 Frank R. Barrow 1959-62 W. F. Brooks, Sr. 1962 Warren Whitson, Jr. 1962-67 Zeke Martin 1967-69 L. A. Nelson 1969-70 Alexander M. Finlay, Jr. 1970-72 Bill Neu 1972-75 Tom D. Jester, Jr. 1975-76 Elinor Hughes 1976-78 Joe Mitchell 1978-79 Bill Nash 1979-80 Richard O. Stewart 1980-86 Ray Stephens 1986-90 Bob Castleberry 1990-96 Jack Miller 1996-2000 Euline Brock 2000-06 Perry McNeill 2006-08 Mark Burroughs 2008-13 Gerard Hudspeth 2021-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1933 Dec 28: J. L. Wright, elected; W. C. 'Will' Collier, defeated; J. C. Coit, defeated; W. B. Long, defeated; Clarence E. Miller, defeated; Frank B. Hodges, defeated; Pat N. Roberts, defeated.

1934 Apr 3: J. L. Wright, elected; J. C. Coit, defeated.

1936 Apr 7: J. L. Wright, advanced to runoff; George Fritz, advanced to runoff; G. T. Turner, defeated; Robert T. Day, defeated.

1936 Apr 21: J. L. Wright, elected; George Fritz, defeated.

1938 Apr 5: Lee Preston, advanced to runoff; J. L. Wright, advanced to runoff; Robert T. Day, defeated; Ira O'Dell, defeated.

1938 Apr 19: Lee Preston, elected; J. L. Wright, defeated.

1940 Apr 2: Lee Preston, elected; J. W. Gray, defeated; J. L. Wright, defeated.

1942 Apr 7: Lee Preston, elected; W. L. 'Lee' McCormick, defeated; John T. Campbell, defeated; Boyd Armstrong, defeated.

1944 Apr 4: Lee Preston, elected.

1946 Apr 2: J. L. Yarbrough, elected; Lee Preston, defeated.

1952 Apr 1: Mark Hannah, elected unopposed.

2010 May 8: Mark Burroughs, elected; Bob Clifton, defeated.

2012 May 12: Mark Burroughs, advanced to runoff; Neil L. Durrance, advanced to runoff; Donna Woodfork, defeated.

2012 Jun 23: Mark Burroughs, elected; Neil L. Durrance, defeated.

2016 May 7: Chris Watts, elected unopposed.

2020 Nov 3: Keely Briggs, advanced to runoff; Gerard Hudspeth, advanced to runoff; Michael Mitchell, defeated.

2020 Dec 8: Gerard Hudspeth, elected; Keely Briggs, defeated.

Postmasters at Denton, 1887-1901 (may be incomplete!)
W. H. Bates as of 1887 C. T. Ramsdell as of 1901

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