The Political Graveyard: Grafton, West Virginia

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Grafton, West Virginia
Mayors, City Managers, Postmasters

Mayors of Grafton, 1914-99 (may be incomplete!)
W. Merle Watkins as of 1914 B. S. Dilworth as of 1919 Charles O. King as of 1929 Charles O. King as of 1934 O. E. Waugh as of 1937 P. F. Gillispie as of 1939-40 Charles O. King as of 1941-46 Russell G. Dotson as of 1947-49 Dorsey G. Bolyard as of 1949-53 Homer A. Gatrell as of 1953 R. D. Stout as of 1955 Paul P. Warden as of 1959-63 Ronald Knotts as of 1964 William A. Murray as of 1965-66 Mrs. Cosma Fisher as of 1967-70 James C. Fawcett as of 1971-74 William A. Manley as of 1976-77 Rodney Workman as of 1978-79 John D. Murray as of 1980-81 Rodney Workman as of 1982 John Reid as of 1983 Paul E. Elder as of 1985 John D. Murray as of 1986-87 Bruce L. Miller as of 1989 Daniel Mankins as of 1996-97 Thomas Horacek as of 1999

City Managers of Grafton, 1949-51 (may be incomplete!)
Curtis D. Decker as of 1949 Harry Curry as of 1950 A. Page Lockard as of 1951

Postmasters at Grafton, 1863-1972 (may be incomplete!)
Edward T. Osbourn 1863 James J. Warren 1863-66 Daniel Wilson 1866-76 Charles F. W. Kunst 1876-87 Andrew J. Nuzum 1887-91 James W. Holt 1891-94 Stephen W. Poe 1894-97 James W. Holt 1897-1902 Franklin B. Blue 1902-07 Ernest L. Love 1907-15 John H. S. Barlow 1915-24 Alphonse Leuthardt 1924-33 James T. Murphy 1933-35 James T. Murphy 1935-51 Howard F. Courtney 1951-52 Howard F. Courtney 1952-54 Loren A. Hoffman 1954-58 Loren A. Hoffman 1958-63 Thomas Kenneth Cole 1963-64 Thomas Kenneth Cole 1964-72

Grafton
(became part of West Virginia 1863)

Postmasters at Grafton, 1854-63 (may be incomplete!)
William Powell 1854-57 Joseph S. Mercer 1857-59 M. Campbell 1859-61 Edward T. Osbourn 1861-63

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