List of mayors of Rochester, Minnesota
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People who have served as mayor of Rochester, Minnesota.
Mayor | Term |
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Moses W. Fay | 1858–1859 |
Frederick Augustus Olds | 1859–1860 |
W. D. Hurlbut | 1860–1861 |
John Clark | 1861–1862 |
L. B. Bliss | 1862–1864, 1868–1969 |
Abram Ozmun | 1864–1865 |
J. V. Daniels | 1865–1866 |
Ozora P. Stearns | 1866–1868 |
Daniel Heaney | 1869–1870 |
Frederick Taft Olds | 1870–1871 |
Orlen P. Whitcomb | 1871–1872 |
Geo. W. Van Dusen | 1872–1873 |
D. H. Williams | 1873–1875 |
D. A. Morrison | 1875–1879 |
Lyman E. Cowdery | 1879–1880 |
Samuel Whitten | 1880–1882, 1883–1885 |
Dr. William Worrall Mayo | 1882–1883 |
O. S. Porter | 1885–1887, 1889–1890 |
Andrew Nelson | 1887–1889 |
D. Darling | 1890–1892 |
Dr. Horace H. Witherstine | 1892–1895, 1896–1897, 1902–1903 |
Dr. W. A. Allen | 1895–1896 |
J. W. Wagoner | 1897–1898 |
B. W. Eaton | 1898–1899 |
J. A. Melone | 1899–1900 |
Dr. E. L. Sinclair | 1900–1902 |
Archie C. Stevenson | 1903–1905 |
Martin Heffron | 1905–1907 |
Julius J. Reiter | 1907–1909, 1917–1919, 1923–1925, 1931–1935 |
J. C. Thompson | 1909–1911 |
William B. Richardson | 1911–1917 |
C. D. Brown (Died in Office 12-22-1927) | 1919–1923, 1927 |
John T. Lemmon | 1925–1927, 1930–1931 |
Fred W. Haase | 1928–1929 |
W. A. Moore | 1935–1939 |
Paul Grassle | 1939–1947 |
Claude H. McQuillan (Died in Office 11-16-1957) | 1947–1951, 1953–1957 |
Glenn O. Amundsen | 1951–1953 |
Adolph M. Bach | 1957–1958 |
Alexander P. Smetka | 1958–1969, 1973–1979 |
Dewey Day | 1969–1973 |
Chuck Hazama | 1979–1995 |
Chuck Canfield | 1995–2003 |
Ardell Brede | 2003–2019 |
Kim Norton | 2019–present |
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References
- Mayors of Rochester, Minnesota. The Political Graveyard.
- Alexander P. Smetka Minnesota State University Alumni Association.
- STEARNS, Ozora Pierson infoplease.
- Obit of Paul Grassle Rochester Post Bulletin/rootsweb.
- Rear Platform Remarks in Minnesota and Wisconsin The Public Papers of Harry S. Truman.
- Born in a Storm Mayo Clinic
- Robert Olds of Windsor and Suffield, CT and his descendants Rootsweb/Dan W. Olds
- Olmsted County History The Minnesota GenWeb Project/Olmsted County Genealogy
- Rochester Police Department History City of Rochester, Minnesota
- The History Center of Olmsted County
Images of America Rochester, MN by Ted St. Mane