The Political Graveyard: Hurricane, West Virginia

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Hurricane, West Virginia
including Hurricane Bridge
Mayors, Postmasters

Mayors of Hurricane, 1934-83 (may be incomplete!)
James E. Billups as of 1934 J. F. Keening as of 1941 V. S. Spurlock as of 1942 Gene Campbell as of 1943-44 Millard E. Bayliss as of 1945-46 Landon C. White as of 1947-50 Luther K. Rumbaugh as of 1951 Raymond Peak as of 1965-67 L. I. Williams as of 1977-80 Raymond Peak as of 1981-83

Postmasters at Hurricane, 1882-1972 (may be incomplete!)
William L. Losee 1882-86 Francis M. Reynolds 1886-87 Francis H. Reynolds 1887-89 William D. Hodges 1889-93 George W. Wilkinson 1893-97 William D. Hodges 1897-1913 Fleetwood B. Oxley 1913 James E. Billups 1913-19 R. E. Mitchell 1919-20 Losee O. Hodges 1920-24 Daisy L. Martin 1924-27 Walter O. Deacon 1927-35 George C. Sowards 1935-53 Paul D. Wise 1953-54 Leland S. Griffith, Jr. 1954-72

Hurricane Bridge
(renamed Hurricane in 1882)

Postmasters at Hurricane Bridge, 1863-82 (may be incomplete!)
William H. Morris 1863-65 Andrew N. Curry 1865-66 John Seashols 1866-67 William Hodges 1867-69 Scott Ellis 1869-72 George W. Grobe 1872 William H. McCallister 1872-81 William L. Losee 1881-82

Hurricane Bridge
(became part of West Virginia in 1863)

Postmasters at Hurricane Bridge, 1851-63 (may be incomplete!)
Albert J. Beckett 1851-57 William H. Morris 1857-63

"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."
Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872

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