The Political Graveyard: Roanoke, Virginia

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Roanoke, Virginia
including Big Lick
Mayors, Postmasters

Mayors of Roanoke, 1898-1992 (may be incomplete!)
James P. Woods 1898-1900 Roy L. Webber as of 1953-54 Robert W. Woody as of 1955-56 Noel C. Taylor 1975-92

Postmasters at Roanoke, 1881-1974 (may be incomplete!)
George T. Rhodes 1881-82 Alexander S. Asberry 1882-85 Oscar D. Derr 1885-89 Alexander S. Asberry 1889-94 William P. Dupuy 1894-98 S. Harris Hoge 1898-1906 Luther G. Funkhouser 1906-15 Levi B. Davis 1915-20 Wyatt A. LeGrand 1920-22 Floyd E. Ellis 1922-27 S. Harris Hoge 1927-29 S. Harris Hoge 1929-33 Ernest L. Keyser 1933-35 Ernest L. Keyser 1935-37 Marion S. Battle 1937 Marion S. Battle 1937-38 John W. Wright 1938 John W. Wright 1938-40 Virginia K. Wright 1940-41 Virginia K. Wright 1941-55 Robert L. Via 1955-56 Robert L. Via 1956-59 Harold Ross 1959-61 Melvin S. Raikes 1961 Melvin S. Raikes 1961-74

Big Lick
(renamed Roanoke in 1881)

Postmasters at Big Lick, 1798-1881 (may be incomplete!)
Wigton King 1798-1804 John Pate 1804-13 James Brawley 1813 John Muse 1813-15 Edward Pate 1818-21 Robert Robertson 1821 Edmund Pate 1821-26 William Smith 1826 Benjamin Ward 1826-27 Seth Ward, Jr. 1827 James C. Madison 1827-28 Paschal B. Wade 1829-31 Yelverton L. Oliver 1831 John C. Jeffreys 1831-34 Frederick Johnston 1834-38 Thomas W. Micon 1838-46 Zachariah S. Robinson 1846-47 Armistead Neal 1847-56 James W. Neal 1856-61 John A. Sowers 1865-71 Samuel M. White 1871-73 George T. Rhodes 1873-81

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