Mayors of Highland Park, 1916-2005(may beincomplete!) FrankE. Hager 1916-18RoyalMilton Ford 1918-19ClarenceE. Gittins 1924-28JohnC. Shields 1928-30N.Ray Markland 1932-34JosephM. Hackett 1934-37NormanJ. Patterson 1950-51JohnR. Smith 1951-53PhilipE. Cowan as of 1954-55PaulV. Winkler as of 1956MarkE. Storen 1960-65MichaelM. Glusac as of 1967JesseP. Miller as of 1978LinseyPorter as of 2002TitusMcClary as of 2004-05 Events and Candidates(may be incomplete!)
1918 Apr 1:RoyalMilton Ford, elected;FrankE. Hager, defeated. 1922 Apr 3:EdgarF. Down, elected. 1924 Apr 7:ClarenceE. Gittins, elected;I.Paul Taylor, defeated. 1928 Apr 2:JohnC. Shields, elected;ClarenceE. Gittins, defeated. 1930 Mar 3:JohnC. Shields, nominated;I.Paul Taylor, nominated. 1930 Apr 7:JohnC. Shields, elected;I.Paul Taylor, defeated. 1932 Apr 4:N.Ray Markland, elected;JamesI. Ellman, defeated. 1934 Apr 2:JosephM. Hackett, elected;N.Ray Markland, defeated. 1936 Apr 6:JosephM. Hackett, elected;ClydeL. Fulton, defeated. 1938 Apr 4:BlaineT. Colman, elected. 1940 Apr 1:BlaineT. Colman, elected;ChesterM. Martin, defeated. 1951 Feb 19:JohnR. Smith, nominated;RichardNahabedian, nominated;WalterJ. Klees, defeated in primary;PaulV. Winkler, defeated in primary;HaroldTruax, defeated in primary. 1951 Apr 2:JohnR. Smith, elected;RichardNahabedian, defeated. 1959:MarkE. Storen, elected. 1965 Feb 25:MarkE. Storen, died in office. 1979 Nov 6:RobertB. Blackwell, elected. 1983 Nov 8:RobertB. Blackwell, elected. 2003 Nov 4:TitusMcClary, elected;EricLamont Hollowell, defeated.
Village Presidents of Highland Park, 1889-1903(may beincomplete!) JonathanP. Price 1889 Events and Candidates(may be incomplete!)
1903 Mar 9:FrankHolznagle (Citizens Improvement), elected;W.W. McAlpine (Ind), defeated.
Postmasters at Highland Park, 1891-1903(may beincomplete!) JohnC. Hickey as of 1891JamesR. Hutton as of 1901GuyM. Smith as of 1903 | |
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