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Mayors and Postmasters of Provo, Utah


Mayors of Provo, 1851-2004 (may be incomplete!)
Ellis Eames 1851-52 Evan M. Green 1853-54 Benjamin K. Bullock 1855-60 Ebenezer Hanks 1861 Andrew H. Scott 1861-62 Isaac Bullock 1863 Benjamin K. Bullock 1863 William Miller 1864-67 Abraham O. Smoot 1868-81 Wilson H. Dusenberry 1882-89 John E. Booth 1890-91 Warren N. Dusenberry 1892-93 Lafayette Holbrook 1894-97 Samuel Stephen Jones 1898-99 Thomas N. Taylor 1900-03 William M. Roylance 1904-05 Joseph H. Frisby 1906-07 Charles F. Decker 1908-09 William H. Ray 1910-11 Charles F. Decker 1912-15 James E. Daniels 1916-17 LeRoy Dixon 1918-21 O. K. Hansen 1922-27 Alma Van Wagenen 1928-29 Jesse N. Ellertson 1930-33 Abraham Owen Smoot III 1934-35 Mark Anderson 1936-41 Maurice Harding 1941-45 Mark Anderson 1946-47 George E. Collard 1948-49 C. W. Love 1950-53 Aura C. Hatch 1954-55 Harold E. Van Wagenen 1956-57 G. Marion Hinckley 1958 Lloyd L. Cullimore 1959-61 Ariel S. Ballif 1961 Verl G. Dixon 1962-73 Russell D. Grange 1974-77 James E. Ferguson 1978-85 Joseph A. Jenkins 1986-92 Dennis R. Hall 1993 Michael R. Hill 1993 George O. Stewart 1994-97 Lewis K. Billings 1998-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1861: Ebenezer Hanks, resigned; Andrew H. Scott, appointed.
  • 1863: Isaac Bullock, resigned; Benjamin K. Bullock, appointed.
  • 1941 Aug 28: Mark Anderson, resigned; Maurice Harding, appointed.
  • 1985 Oct 8: Joseph A. Jenkins, nominated; James E. Ferguson, nominated; Mark Phelps Watters, defeated in primary.
  • 1985 Nov 5: Joseph A. Jenkins, elected; James E. Ferguson, defeated.
  • 1989 Oct 3: Joseph A. Jenkins, nominated; Sherm Hislop, nominated; Shari C. Holweg, defeated in primary; Verl G. Dixon, defeated in primary; J. Wayne Spence, defeated in primary; Harold C. Johnson, defeated in primary; Stan Elwood, defeated in primary.
  • 1989 Nov 7: Joseph A. Jenkins, elected; Sherm Hislop, defeated; Shari C. Holweg, defeated.
  • 1993: Michael R. Hill, appointed.


    Postmasters at Provo, 1901 (may be incomplete!)
    James Clove as of 1901

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