Mayors of Charleston, 1836-2020(may beincomplete!) RobertY. Hayne 1836-37HenryLaurens Pinckney 1837-40JacobF. Mintzing 1840-42JohnSchnierle 1842-46ThomasLeger Hutchinson 1846-50JohnSchnierle 1850-52ThomasLeger Hutchinson 1852-55WilliamPorcher Miles 1855-57CharlesMacbeth 1857-65PeterC. Gaillard 1865-68WilliamWallace Burns 1868MiltonCogswell 1868GeorgeWashington Clark 1868-69GilbertPillsbury 1869-71JohannAndreas Wagener 1871-73GeorgeI. Cunningham 1873-77WilliamW. Sale 1877-79WilliamAshmead Courtenay 1879-87GeorgeD. Bryan 1887-91JohnF. Ficken 1891-95JamesAdger Smyth 1896-1903R.Goodwyn Rhett 1903-11JohnP. Grace 1911-15TristramT. Hyde 1915-19JohnP. Grace 1919-23ThomasPorcher Stoney 1923-31BurnetR. Maybank 1931-38HenryW. Lockwood 1938-44E.Edward Wehman, Jr. 1944-47WilliamMcG. Morrison 1947-59J.Palmer Gaillard, Jr. 1959-75ArthurB. Schirmer, Jr. 1975JosephP. Riley, Jr. 1975-2016JohnJ. Tecklenburg 2016- Events and Candidates(may be incomplete!)
1840 Sep 7:JacobF. Mintzing, elected. 1841 Sep 6:JacobF. Mintzing, elected. 1842 Mar 14:JacobF. Mintzing, died in office. 1877 Dec 11:WilliamW. Sale, elected. 1887 Dec 13:GeorgeD. Bryan, elected. 1903 Dec 8:R.Goodwyn Rhett, elected. 1907 Dec 8:R.Goodwyn Rhett, elected. 1944 Jun 5:HenryW. Lockwood, died in office. 1959 Jun 9:WilliamMcG. Morrison, defeated. 1999 Nov 2:JosephP. Riley, Jr. (Dem), elected. 2003:JosephP. Riley, Jr., elected. 2015 Nov 17:JohnJ. Tecklenburg, elected.
Intendants of Charleston, 1783-1836(may beincomplete!) RichardHutson 1783-85ArnoldusVan der Horst 1785-86JohnGrimké 1786-88RawlinsLowndes 1788-89ThomasJones 1789-90ArnoldusVan der Horst 1790-92JohnHuger 1792-94JohnBee Holmes 1794-95JohnEdwards, Jr. 1795-97HenryW. de Saussure 1797-99ThomasRoper 1799-1801JohnWard 1801-02DavidDeas 1802-03JohnDrayton 1803-04ThomasWinstanley 1804-05CharlesCochran 1805-06JohnDawson, Jr. 1806-08BenjaminBoyd 1808WilliamRouse 1808-10ThomasH. McCalla 1810-12ThomasBennett 1812-13ThomasRhett Smith 1813-15EliasHorry 1815-17JohnGeddes 1817-19DanielStevens 1819-20EliasHorry 1820-21JamesHamilton, Jr. 1821-22JohnGeddes 1823-24SamuelPrioleau 1824-25JosephJohnson 1825-27JohnGadsden 1827-29HenryLaurens Pinckney 1829-30JamesR. Pringle 1830-31HenryLaurens Pinckney 1831-33EdwardW. North 1833-36 Events and Candidates(may be incomplete!)
1783 Sep 11:RichardHutson, elected. 1784 Sep 13:RichardHutson, elected. 1785 Sep 12:ArnoldusVan der Horst, elected. 1786 Sep 11:JohnGrimké, elected. 1787 Sep 10:JohnGrimké, elected. 1788 Sep 7:JohnGrimké, elected. 1788 Sep 15:JohnGrimké, resigned. 1788 Sep 29:RawlinsLowndes, elected. 1790 Sep 13:ArnoldusVan der Horst, elected. 1791 Sep 12:ArnoldusVan der Horst, elected. 1792 Sep 10:JohnHuger, elected. 1793 Sep 9:JohnHuger, elected. 1794 Sep 22:JohnBee Holmes, elected. 1795 Sep 26:JohnEdwards, Jr., elected. 1796 Sep 12:JohnEdwards, Jr., elected. 1797 Sep 11:HenryW. de Saussure, elected. 1798 Sep 10:HenryW. de Saussure, elected. 1799 Sep 9:ThomasRoper, elected. 1800 Sep 8:ThomasRoper, elected. 1801 Sep 14:JohnWard, elected. 1802 Sep 13:DavidDeas, elected. 1803 Sep 12:JohnDrayton, elected.
Postmasters at Charleston, 1783-1981(may beincomplete!) ThomasHall 1783-91ThomasW. Bacot 1791-1834AlfredHuger 1834-67StanleyG. Trott 1867-73BenjaminA. Boseman 1873-81WilliamN. Taft 1881-85BenjaminF. Huger 1885-87AlbertH. Mowry 1887-98GeorgeI. Cunningham 1898-1902WilmotL. Harris 1902-13CarlG. Willard 1913JosephM. Poulnot 1913-21SamuelE. Hendry 1921-22EdwardH. Jennings 1922-35PhilipM. Clement 1935-46HenryH. Cochran 1946EdmundP. Grice, Jr. 1946-47EdmundP. Grice, Jr. 1947-60RolandF. Wooten, Jr. 1960-61RolandF. Wooten, Jr. 1961-68JamesGorman Thomas, Jr. 1968-70JamesGorman Thomas, Jr. 1970-81 Events and Candidates(may be incomplete!)
1887 Mar 25:BenjaminF. Huger, died in office.
Collectors of Customs at Charleston, 1819-1951(may beincomplete!) JamesR. Pringle 1819-20HenryLaurens Pinckney 1841-42WilliamF. Colcock as of 1854HenryG. Worthington 1873-77CyrusH. Baldwin as of 1879-81ThomasB. Johnston as of 1891GeorgeD. Bryan 1894-98WilliamD. Crum 1904-10EdwardW. Durant, Jr. as of 1909F.C. Peters as of 1917S.M. Parker as of 1927FrederickG. Davies as of 1932WilliamJ. Storen as of 1941-51
U.S. Collectors of Internal Revenue at Charleston, 1875-76(may be incomplete!) A.J. Ransier 1875-76 | |
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