Mayors of Muskegon, 1870-2008(may be incomplete!) ChaunceyDavis 1870-71JosephIreland 1871-72ChaunceyDavis 1872-73HenryH. Getty 1873-74SamuelH. Wagner 1874-75WilliamGlue 1875-76OliverP. Pillsbury 1876-77Torrent1888-89JamesBalbirnie 1899JohnCampbell 1907-09HarryA. Rietdyk 1909-13JohnH. Moore 1913-15ArntEllifson 1915-17T.B. Bennett 1920GeorgeVanderwerp as of 1937EdwinJ. Quick as of 1952JohnE. Medendorp as of 1953-54WilliamE. Steiner as of 1955-56DonF. Seyferth 1958-60DonaldE. Johnson as of 1967StephenJ. Warmington 2002- Events and Candidates(may be incomplete!)
1870 Apr 4:ChaunceyDavis, elected. 1880 Apr 5:Jiroch(Dem), elected. 1889 Apr 1:MartinWaalkes (Dem), elected;Torrent(Rep), defeated. 1899 Apr 3:JamesBalbirnie (Rep), elected. 1899 Jun 29:JamesBalbirnie, died in office. 1900 Apr 2:FrankAlberts (Rep), elected. 1903 Apr 6:LeonardEyke (Dem), elected. 1904 Apr 4:LeonardEyke (Dem), elected. 1906 Apr 2:NormanB. Lawson (Dem), elected. 1907 Apr 1:JohnCampbell (Dem), elected. 1908 Apr 6:JohnCampbell (Dem), elected;G.R. Ross (Rep), defeated. 1909 Apr 5:HarryA. Rietdyk (Dem), elected. 1910 Apr 4:HarryA. Rietdyk (Dem), elected;HenryE. Langlenad (Rep), defeated. 1912 Apr 1:HarryA. Rietdyk (Dem), elected. 1913 Apr 7:JohnH. Moore (Progressive), elected;NormanB. Lawson (Dem), defeated;LeeH. Trott (Rep), defeated;EdwardO. Foss (Socialist), defeated. 1914 Mar 4:GeorgeS. Stanley (Dem), nominated unopposed. 1914 Mar 4:ArntEllifson (Rep), nominated unopposed. 1914 Mar 4:RayA. Cottrell (Socialist), nominated unopposed. 1914 Mar 4:JohnH. Moore (Progressive), nominated unopposed. 1914 Apr 6:JohnH. Moore (Progressive), elected;ArntEllifson (Rep), defeated;GeorgeS. Stanley (Dem), defeated;RayA. Cottrell (Socialist), defeated. 1915 Mar 3:NormanB. Lawson (Dem), nominated unopposed. 1915 Mar 3:ArntEllifson (Rep), nominated;JohnH. Moore (Rep), defeated in primary. 1915 Mar 3:JohnJ. Castenholz (Progressive), nominated unopposed, but withdrew. 1915 Apr 5:ArntEllifson (Rep), elected;NormanB. Lawson (Dem), defeated. 1916 Mar 1:WilliamJ. Smith (Dem), nominated unopposed. 1916 Mar 1:ArntEllifson (Rep), nominated unopposed. 1916 Mar 1:D.L. Garver (Socialist), nominated unopposed. 1916 Apr 3:ArntEllifson (Rep), elected;NormanB. Lawson (Dem), defeated;D.L. Garver (Socialist), defeated. 1917 Mar 7:HarryA. Rietdyk (Dem), nominated;NormanB. Lawson (Dem), defeated in primary. 1917 Mar 7:ArntEllifson (Rep), nominated;WilliamH. Smith, Jr. (Rep), defeated in primary. 1917 Mar 7:PeterVolmari (Prohibition), nominated unopposed. 1917 Mar 7:BertLeach (Socialist), nominated unopposed. 1917 Apr 2:ArntEllifson (Rep), elected;HarryA. Rietdyk (Dem), defeated;BertLeach (Socialist), defeated;PeterVolmari (Prohibition), defeated. 1918 Apr 1:JamesL. Smith (Dem), elected. 2001 Nov 6:StephenJ. Warmington, elected;JaneClingman-Scott, defeated. 2005 Nov 8:StephenJ. Warmington, elected;RicScott, defeated.
Village Presidents of Muskegon, 1861-70(may beincomplete!) LymanG. Mason 1861-62SamuelB. Peck 1862-64JosephH. Hackley 1864-67EliasW. Merrill 1867-68BenjaminL. Piper 1868-70 Events and Candidates(may be incomplete!)
1861 Jul 8:LymanG. Mason, elected.
Postmasters at Muskegon, 1838-1971(may beincomplete!) HenryPennoyer 1838-39ChristopherFryzine 1839-40HenryPennoyer 1840-47GeorgeW. Walton 1848-55DanielW. Holbrook 1855JohnB. Wheeler 1855-57WilliamP. Odell 1857-59CharlesP. Bigelow 1859-61EliasW. Merrill 1861-63JosephD. Davis 1863-65WilliamW. Owen 1865-69EliasW. Merrill 1869-75LutherWhitney 1875-87FrankH. Holbrook 1887-91SamuelH. Stevens 1891-95LeighB. Smith 1895-99SylvesterH. Gray 1899-1903HoraceL. Delano 1903-07PhillipP. Schnorbach 1907-15BenjaminG. Oosterbaan 1915-23LincolnRodgers 1923-24LincolnRodgers 1924-36StanleyJ. Risk 1936-55WalterB. Steele 1955-56WalterB. Steele 1956-71 | |