The Political Graveyard: Mayors and Postmasters of Ravenswood, West Virginia

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Mayors and Postmasters of Ravenswood, West Virginia

Mayors of Ravenswood, 1933-83 (may be incomplete!)
Ray E. Ritchie 1933-46 Delmar K. Somerville as of 1947-48 W. T. Blake as of 1949-50 George E. Bennett as of 1951 Paul R. Moore as of 1965-66 Clarence E. Leeson as of 1967 Robert L. Jones as of 1977-80 Robert L. Dittmar as of 1981-83

Postmasters at Ravenswood, 1863-1972 (may be incomplete!)
Thomas Atkinson 1863-64 Mark Starcher 1864-67 Robert T. Wetzel 1867-77 Ralph S. Morgan 1877-81 James E. McGlothlin 1881-85 Everett C. Smith 1885-89 James F. Stone 1889-94 Frank Cooper 1894-98 James E. McGlothlin 1898-1902 Isaac M. Adams 1902-11 William H. Latham 1911-15 Margaret McGugin 1915-20 Michael E. Ginther 1920-24 James H. Latham 1924-29 John R. Keller 1929-30 Thomas L. Wolfe 1930-33 Frank D. Fleming 1933-34 Frank D. Fleming 1934-40 Paul Pickens 1940-50 Wayne S. Myers 1950-51 Wayne S. Myers 1951-58 William J. Blackburn 1958-61 James E. Knowlton 1961 James E. Knowlton 1961-72

Ravenswood
(became part of West Virginia in 1863)

Postmasters at Ravenswood, 1839-63 (may be incomplete!)
Joseph Holden 1839-40 James H. Henry 1840-43 Archibald A. Quarriez 1843-48 P. Sallance 1848-51 Isaac Proctor 1851 Thomas Atkinson 1851-63

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