The Political Graveyard: Wellsburg, West Virginia

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Wellsburg, West Virginia
including Brooke Court House
Mayors, Postmasters

Mayors of Wellsburg, 1934-83 (may be incomplete!)
Charles F. McGlumphy as of 1934 Leonard B. Lauffer as of 1941-42 Harry Fryer as of 1943-46 Donald E. Lewis as of 1947-48 H. Ray Zimmerman as of 1949-50 P. C. Poletti as of 1951 J. Hubert McCracken as of 1965-67 William Williams as of 1977-80 Anthony J. Cipriani as of 1981-83

Postmasters at Wellsburg, 1863-1976 (may be incomplete!)
Thomas M. Lloyd 1863-64 Thomas Hagen 1864-66 Thomas W. Griffin 1866-69 Henry M. Hall 1869-79 Emma L. Ackison 1879-87 Joseph R. Naylor 1887 William P. Campbell 1887-89 James M. Jones 1889-94 William P. Campbell 1894-95 Emery Jacobs 1895-99 John B. McNally 1899-1908 William R. Miller 1908-12 Albert Snedecker 1912-13 Talbott H. Buchanan 1913-15 George T. Buchanan 1915 Henry Zilliken 1915-17 George T. Buchanan 1917-18 William R. Miller 1918 George T. Buchanan 1918-22 George E. Patterson 1922-33 William M. Gracey 1933-34 Joseph V. Emig 1934-49 Robert J. Stoetzer 1949-50 Robert J. Stoetzer 1950-76

Wellsburg
(became part of West Virginia 1863)

Postmasters at Wellsburg, 1819-63 (may be incomplete!)
William McCluney 1819-21 William Patton 1821-30 Thomas McCarty 1830-45 Harrison Connell 1845-49 James McCluney 1849-51 James A. Smith 1851-53 Harrison Connell 1853-54 William DeCamps 1854-61 Thomas M. Lloyd 1861-63

Brooke Court House
(renamed Wellsburg)

Postmasters at Brooke Court House, 1800-19 (may be incomplete!)
William Thorpe 1800-01 Silas Bent 1801-03 Robert Colwell 1803 David Offley 1803-05 John Fling 1805-16 William McCluney 1816-19

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