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Mayors and Postmasters of Berlin, Wisconsin


Mayors of Berlin, 1857-2020 (may be incomplete!)
George Waring 1857-61 John D. Porter 1861-63 John D. Husted 1863-65 Henry A. Williams 1865 H. G. Talbot 1865-67 Oscar Silver 1867-69 S. H. Warner 1869-71 H. G. Talbot 1871-73 S. H. Warner 1873-75 J. N. Rogers 1875-79 Hiram Stedman 1879-81 H. G. Talbot 1881-85 George Fitch 1885-87 Joseph Yates 1887-89 Hobart S. Sacket 1889-91 D. L. Harkness 1891-93 R. L. D. Potter 1893 John J. Wood, Jr. 1893-97 Mahlon Safford 1897-1901 Henry C. Truesdell 1901-05 Herman Temme 1905-07 Julius F. Koch 1907-09 Charles Kulnick 1909-11 Grant Bunce 1911-13 Edmond H. Fitzmaurice 1913-15 Charles Hitchcock 1915-21 Grant Bunce 1921-23 Charles Hitchcock 1923-29 August Kramp 1929-33 Charles Boettge 1933-37 August Kramp 1937-43 Jay J. Williams 1943-47 Clarence S. Cross 1947-48 Nathan Hughes 1948-51 Sam Verheyen 1951-55 Frank Dopke 1955-57 John Shupe 1957-59 Marvin Knecht 1959-63 Otto Heuer 1963-67 Emil Meissner 1967-69 Gordon Jodarski 1969-77 Harold Klassa 1977-85 Gordon Jodarski 1985-89 Gordon Schwark 1989-93 Harold Klassa 1993-97 Steve W. Sponholtz 1997-2001 George Herides 2001-05 Roberta A. Erdmann 2005-07 Richard Schramer 2007-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1893 Nov 2: R. L. D. Potter, died in office.
  • 1947 Dec 1: Jay J. Williams, resigned.
  • 2007: Richard Schramer, elected.
  • 2009: Richard Schramer, elected.
  • 2011: Richard Schramer, elected.
  • 2013: Richard Schramer, elected.
  • 2015: Richard Schramer, elected.
  • 2017: Richard Schramer, elected.


    Postmasters at Berlin, 1887-1905 (may be incomplete!)
    D. L. Harkness as of 1887 Alfred L. Tucker as of 1891 W. H. Johnson as of 1901-05

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