Mayors of Wausau, 1872-2023(may be incomplete!) AugustKickbusch 1872-73JacobPaff 1873-74AugustKickbusch 1874-75CarlHoeflinger 1875-76BartholomewRingle 1876-77JohnC. Clarke 1877-78DanielL. Plumer 1878-79JohnE. Leahy 1879-82DanielL. Plumer 1882-84JohnRingle 1884-85RufusP. Manson 1885-87AntonMehl 1887-88ErnstC. Zimmerman 1888-90GustaveMueller 1890-91RobertE. Parcher 1891-94JohnMiller 1894-95HenryE. McEachron 1895-96EmeryJ. Anderson 1896-97HenryE. McEachron 1897-98JohnN. Manson 1898-99JosephReiser 1899-1900VictorAlderson 1900-01LouisMarchetti 1901-04ErnstC. Zimmerman 1904-06MyronH. Duncan 1906-08JohnF. Lamont 1908-12JohnRingle 1912-16HermanE. Marquardt 1916-18JohnL. Sell 1918-20EmilFlatter 1920-26OttoMuenchow 1926-28AlfredV. Gearhart 1928-30OttoMuenchow 1930-35GeorgeW. Borowitz 1935-38AugustPolster 1938-42HerbertA. Giese 1942-54ArthurM. Smith 1954-58BenjaminC. Schuck 1958-64JohnKannenberg 1964-88JohnH. Robinson 1988-92JohnD. Hess 1992-97JimK. Schaefer 1997-98LindaE. Lawrence 1998-2004JamesE. Tipple 2004-16RobertB. Mielke 2016-20KatieRosenberg 2020- Events and Candidates(may be incomplete!)
1938:AugustPolster, elected. 1940:AugustPolster, elected. 1942:HerbertA. Giese, elected. 1942 Feb 1:AugustPolster, died in office. 1944:HerbertA. Giese, elected. 1946:HerbertA. Giese, elected. 1948:HerbertA. Giese, elected. 1950:HerbertA. Giese, elected. 1954 Mar 9:ArthurM. Smith, nominated;HerbertA. Giese, nominated;BertPagenkopf, defeated in primary;OttoF. Wendt, defeated in primary. 1954 Apr 6:ArthurM. Smith, elected;HerbertA. Giese, defeated. 1956 Mar 6:ArthurM. Smith, nominated;BenjaminC. Schuck, nominated;JamesH. Sorenson, defeated in primary. 1956 Apr 3:ArthurM. Smith, elected;BenjaminC. Schuck, defeated. 1958 Apr 1:BenjaminC. Schuck, elected;ArthurM. Smith, defeated. 1960 Apr 5:BenjaminC. Schuck, elected;AdolphHackbarth, defeated. 1962 Apr 3:BenjaminC. Schuck, elected;AdolphHackbarth, defeated. 1964 Mar 10:EugeneWaldinger, nominated;JohnKannenberg, nominated;AdolphHackbarth, defeated in primary;JohnE. Evans, defeated in primary;LeRoyL. Carlson, defeated in primary. 1964 Apr 7:JohnKannenberg, elected;EugeneWaldinger, defeated. 1968 Mar 5:JohnKannenberg, nominated;AllenA. Shepherd, nominated;WilliamB. Mark, defeated in primary;LeRoyL. Carlson, defeated in primary. 1968 Apr 2:JohnKannenberg, elected;AllenA. Shepherd, defeated. 1972 Apr 4:JohnKannenberg, elected unopposed. 1976 Apr 6:JohnKannenberg, elected unopposed. 1980 Apr 1:JohnKannenberg, elected;SusanM. Spruce, defeated. 1984 Apr 3:JohnKannenberg, elected;RuthSparbel, defeated. 1988:JohnH. Robinson, elected. 1992:JohnD. Hess, elected. 1996:JohnD. Hess, elected. 1997:JohnD. Hess, resigned. 1998:LindaE. Lawrence, elected. 2000:LindaE. Lawrence, elected. 2004:JamesE. Tipple, elected. 2008:JamesE. Tipple, elected. 2012:JamesE. Tipple, elected. 2016 Apr 5:RobertB. Mielke, elected. 2020 Apr 7:KatieRosenberg, elected.
Postmasters at Wausau, 1887-1975(may beincomplete!) V.Bingle as of 1887A.W. Trevett as of 1901-05FrederickR. Becker 1934-37OscarL. Ringle 1937-45MabelF. Bachhuber 1945-46DonaldJ. MacCormick 1946-49GeorgeR. Schoenfeld 1949-55NealE. Jones 1955-56NealE. Jones 1956-75 | |
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