The Political Graveyard: Bluefield, West Virginia

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Bluefield, West Virginia
Mayors, City Managers, Postmasters

Mayors of Bluefield, 1919-99 (may be incomplete!)
C. O. Stahlmann as of 1919 Andrew Jackson Stewart as of 1924-28 C. E. Lilley as of 1929 W. A. Light as of 1934 P. T. Saunders as of 1937 W. C. Snyder as of 1937-44 A. Harry Vest as of 1945-48 W. L. Thornton as of 1949-55 T. Courtney Tanner as of 1959 Henry F. Warden, Sr. 1961-65 O. Judson Lambert 1965-67 Clyde J. Stephens as of 1968 C. Edwin Elliott as of 1969-76 Don Keesling as of 1977-80 Paul Cole, Jr. as of 1981-89 Webster Gilbreath as of 1996 Nelson Walker as of 1997-99

City Managers of Bluefield, 1934-51 (may be incomplete!)
Kyle L. Bruce as of 1934 Emory P. Mitchell as of 1949-50 William L. Kell as of 1951

Postmasters at Bluefield, 1901-69 (may be incomplete!)
James E. Martin as of 1901 Hugh Ike Shott as of 1903-05 Stella M. Bivins 1933-35 R. L. Bailey 1935-49 Charles C. Tickle 1949-50 Merriman S. Smith 1950-55 Arnold G. Porterfield 1955-56 Arnold G. Porterfield 1956-62 Howard B. Faulkner 1962 Howard B. Faulkner 1962-64 William S. Penn, Jr. 1964-65 William S. Penn, Jr. 1965-67 Charles C. Tickle 1967 Charles C. Tickle 1967-69

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