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Mayors and Postmasters of Spokane, Washington

Mayors of Spokane, 1881-2024 (may be incomplete!)
Robert W. Forrest 1881-82 James N. Glover 1883-84 Anthony M. Cannon 1885-86 William H. Taylor 1887-88 Jacob Hoover 1888-89 Francis M. Tull 1889 Isaac S. Kaufman 1889 Fred Furth 1889-90 Charles Francis) Clough 1890-91 David B. Fotheringham 1891-92 Daniel M. Drumheller 1892-93 Edward L. Powell 1893-94 Horatio N. Belt 1894-96 Elmer D. Olmsted 1897-98 James M. Comstock 1898-1901 Patrick S. Byrne 1901-03 L. Frank Boyd 1903-05 Floyd L. Daggett 1905-07 C. Herbert Moore 1907-09 Nelson S. Pratt 1909-11 William J. Hindley 1911-13 Charles M. Fassett 1914-16 Charles A. Fleming 1916-17 Charles M. Fassett 1918-20 Charles A. Fleming 1920-29 Leonard Funk 1929-35 Arthur W. Burch 1935-37 Frank G. Sutherlin 1937-45 Otto A. Dirkes 1945-46 Arthur Meehan 1946-55 Willard Taft 1955-58 Frank G. Sutherlin 1958-60 Kenneth Lawson 1960 Neal R. Fosseen 1960-67 David H. Rodgers 1967-78 Ron Bair 1978-82 James Everett Chase 1982-86 Vicki McNeill 1986-90 Sheri S. Barnard 1990-94 Jack Geraghty 1994-98 John Talbott 1998-2000 John Powers 2001-03 James E. West 2004-05 Dennis P. Hession 2005-07 Mary Verner 2007-11 David Condon 2011-19 Nadine Woodward 2020-23 Lisa Brown 2024-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1967 Nov 7: David H. Rodgers, elected; Ralph M. Rosenberry, defeated.
  • 2003: John Powers, defeated.

    Postmasters at Spokane, 1891-1971 (may be incomplete!)
    Arthur J. Shaw 1891-94 Howard T. Mallon 1894-97 Charles B. Hopkins 1897-98 George W. Temple 1898-1902 Millard T. Hartson 1902-09 Walter P. Edris 1909-13 Dana Child 1913-22 Thomas Child 1922-30 Frank P. Hicks 1930 Walter M. Hubbell 1930-34 Will W. Simpson 1934-35 Will W. Simpson 1935-49 Edward Chambers 1949-51 Joseph L. Maloney 1951-65 Roy A. Betlach 1965 John B. Paisley 1965-67 Roy A. Betlach 1967-71

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