The Political Graveyard: Mayors and Postmasters of Portsmouth, Virginia

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Mayors and Postmasters of Portsmouth, Virginia

Mayors of Portsmouth, 1952-56 (may be incomplete!)
Fred A. Duke as of 1952-56

Postmasters at Portsmouth, 1784-1980 (may be incomplete!)
John Smith 1784-90 James Harper 1790-95 William B. Lamb 1795-96 James Mathews 1796 Robert Shelton 1797 Robert Thompson 1799-1802 Jesse Nicholson 1802-34 John Hodges 1834-50 Edward R. Hunter 1850-53 Charles L. Cocke 1853-54 John K. Cooke 1854-61 E. T. Blamire 1861 John K. Cooke 1861-63 John O. Lawrence 1863-69 James H. Clements 1869-76 Robert. G. Staples 1876-84 Ambrose H. Lindsay 1884-87 William A. Fiske 1887-89 Ambrose H. Lindsay 1889-94 Richard L. Herbert 1894-98 Samuel L. Burroughs 1898-1902 Holt F. Butt, Jr 1902-14 Samuel T. Montague 1914-18 Patrick J. Riley 1918-22 Patrick J. Riley 1922-31 Lewis B. Barclay 1931-32 Bryant J. Lipscomb 1932-33 Kemp Plumer 1933-34 Kemp Plumer 1934-36 Robert D. M. Ogg 1936-37 Chester H. Markham 1937-39 Samuel F. Kirby 1939-59 Francis J. Riley 1959-61 William E. Doxey 1961 William E. Doxey 1961-80

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