Mayors of East Lansing, 1907-2024(may beincomplete!) ClintonDeWitt Smith 1907-08WarrenBabcock 1908-09ThomasGunson 1909-14JacobSchepers 1914-18EdwardH. Ryder 1918-25LutherH. Baker 1925-28HenryB. Dirks 1928-29BenjaminA. Faunce 1929-31BertJ. Ford 1931-33LymanL. Frimodig 1933-38CarlG. Card 1938-47RichardP. Lyman, Jr. 1947-49BurrO. Twichell 1949-51CorneliusWagenvoord 1951-53MaxR. Strother 1953-59HaroldF. Pletz 1959-61GordonL. Thomas 1961-71WilburB. Brookover 1971-75GeorgeL. Griffiths 1975-79LarryOwen 1979-83JohnCzarnecki 1983-87JoanB. Hunault 1987-89LizSchweitzer 1989-93RobertPhipps 1993-95DougJester 1995-97MarkS. Meadows 1997-2005SamSingh 2005-07VictorLoomis 2007-11DianeGoddeeris 2011-13NathanTriplett 2013-15MarkS. Meadows 2015-19RuthBeier 2019-20AaronStephens 2020-21JessyGregg 2021RonBacon 2021-23GeorgeBrookover 2023- Events and Candidates(may be incomplete!)
1908 Apr 6:WarrenBabcock (Citizens), elected unopposed. 1909 Apr 5:ThomasGunson (Citizens), elected unopposed. 1910 Apr 4:ThomasGunson (Citizens), elected unopposed. 1911 Apr 3:ThomasGunson (Citizens), elected unopposed. 1912 Apr 1:ThomasGunson (Citizens), elected unopposed. 1913 Apr 7:ThomasGunson (Citizens), elected;ElyF. Allen (Progressive), defeated. 1914 Apr 6:JacobSchepers (Citizens), elected unopposed. 1915 Apr 5:JacobSchepers (Citizens), elected unopposed. 1916 Apr 3:JacobSchepers (Citizens), elected unopposed. 1917 Apr 2:JacobSchepers (Citizens), elected unopposed. 1918 Apr 1:EdwardH. Ryder (Citizens), elected unopposed. 1919 Apr 7:EdwardH. Ryder (Citizens), elected unopposed. 1920 Apr 5:EdwardH. Ryder (Citizens), elected unopposed. 1921 Apr 4:EdwardH. Ryder (Citizens), elected unopposed. 1922 Apr 3:EdwardH. Ryder (Citizens), elected unopposed. 1923 Apr 2:EdwardH. Ryder (Citizens), elected unopposed. 1924 Apr 7:EdwardH. Ryder (Citizens), elected;HenryB. Dirks (Ind), defeated. 1925 Apr 6:LutherH. Baker (Citizens), elected;HenryB. Dirks (Ind), defeated. 1926 Apr 5:LutherH. Baker (Citizens), elected;FrankW. Chamberlain (Ind), defeated. 1927 Apr 4:LutherH. Baker (Citizens), elected;FrankW. Chamberlain (Ind), defeated. 1928 Apr 2:HenryB. Dirks (Ind), elected;MarkH. Smith (Citizens), defeated. 1929 Apr 1:BenjaminA. Faunce (Citizens), elected;HenryB. Dirks (Ind), defeated. 1930 Apr 7:BenjaminA. Faunce (Citizens), elected unopposed. 1931:BenjaminA. Faunce, resigned. 1931 Apr 6:BertJ. Ford (Citizens), elected unopposed. 1932 Nov 8:BertJ. Ford (Citizens), elected;ClaytonW. Loring (Taxpayers), defeated. 1933:BertJ. Ford, resigned. 1933 Nov 7:LymanL. Frimodig (Citizens), elected unopposed. 1934 Nov 6:LymanL. Frimodig (Citizens), elected unopposed. 1938 Nov 8:CarlG. Card, elected unopposed. 1938 Dec 1:LymanL. Frimodig, resigned. 1942 Nov 3:CarlG. Card, elected unopposed. 2020 Jul 14:RuthBeier, resigned. 2021 Aug 11:AaronStephens, resigned.
Postmasters at East Lansing, 1907-73(may beincomplete!) CharlesB. Collingwood 1907-09BertL. Rosecrans 1909-14ClaudeD. Aldrich 1914-23CharlesS. Wilcox 1923-31BenjaminA. Faunce 1931-35EarleE. Young 1935EarleE. Young 1935-44LeoB. Francisco 1944-45MervinA. Terrill 1945-49WilliamA. Burgess 1955-58T.H. Spurway 1958-59A.Ray Krider 1959-60A.Ray Krider 1960-73
(became East Lansing 1907)
Postmasters at Agricultural College, 1884-1907(may beincomplete!) RobertG. Baird 1884-85HenryG. Reynolds 1885-93IraH. Butterfield 1893-1902CharlesB. Collingwood 1902-07 | |
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