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Blair’s Mayors

This list is provided courtesy of former Mick Mines.  It was originally compiled by former city clerk, Alice Diedrichsen and her staff.

•  J.H. Post 8-7-1869 to 5-2-1870
• S.H. Fawcett 5-11-1870 to 2-6-1871
• J.H. Hungate 8-11-1871 to 11-25-1871
• L.W. Osborn 1-4-1872 to 4-22-1872
• F.W. Kenny 5-13-1872 to 8-30-1872
• J.H. Hungate 9-18-1872 to 4-2-1873
• C.C. Crowell 4-5-1873 to 4-9-1874
• W.H. Palmer 4-16-1874 to 4-21-1875
• J.H. Hungate 4-24-1875 to 4-11-1876
• F.W. Kenny  4-11-1876 to 4-4-1878
• Alex Reed 4-15-1878 to 4-7-1879
• Theo Haller 4-15-1879 to 4-19-1880
• Alonzo Perkins 4-26-1880 to 4-18-1882
• Perry Selden 4-29-1882 to 4-7-1883
• W.D. Haller 4-30-1883 to 4-21-1884
• V.G. Lantry 4-26-1884 to 4-20-1885
• W.C. Walton 4-20-1885 to 4-16-1888
• W.D. Haller 4-16-1888 to 4-21-1891
• A.C. Jones 4-25-1891 to 4-18-1893
• John McQuarrie 4-28-1893 to 4-17-1894
• E.A. Stewart 4-19-1894 to 10-16-1894
• W.D. Gross 10-27-1894 to 4-16-1895
• Perry (Harry??) Selden 4-26-1895 to 4-21-1896
• M. D. Bedal  1896-1897  *
• A.C. Jones 4-21-1897 to 4-25-1899
• John McQuarrie 4-28-1899 to 4-17-1900
• J.H. Flock 4-19-1900 to 4-16-1901
• W.D. Haller 4-17-1901 to 4-21-1903
• Clark O’Hanlon 4-21-1903 to 4-8-1904
• L. A. Williams  1904-1906  *
• W.G. Harrison 4-30-1906 to 4-23-1907
• W.D. Haller 4-30-1907 to 4-21-1908
• C.R. Mead 5-4-1908 to 5-3-1909
• W.R. Williams 5-4-1909 to 5-2-1911
• J.F. White 5-2-1911 to 4-30-1912
• W.D. Haller 4-30-1912 to 4-29-1915
• J.F. White 5-4-1915 to 5-4-1916
• Magnus Johnson 5-12-1916 to 5-1-1917
• S.W. Chambers 5-4-1917 to 5-7-1918
• J.S. Roberts 5-22-1918 to 5-6-1919
• Henry Christensen 5-15-1919 to 4-29-1921
• John R. Aye 5-3-1921 to 4-15-1924
• R.J. Murdoch 5-6-1924 to 4-29-1930
• J. Harold Stewart 4-29-1930 to 4-19-1932
• P.C. Sorensen 4-26-1932 to 4-28-1936
• U.G. Garner 5-3-1936 to 4-26-1938
• P.C. Sorensen 5-3-1938 to 4-28, 1942
• U.G. Garner 5-5-1942 to 9-9-1947
• Orval Scheffler 9-15-1947 to 4-25-1950
• A. Clarence Vig 4-25-1950 to 4-29-1952
• Raymond C. Hansen 4-29-1952 to 4-29, 1958
• Donald E. Schettler 4-29-1958 to 4-10-1962
• Edward Eagleton 4-10-1962 to 4-14-1964
• Orval Scheffler 4-14-1964 to 4-12-1966
• H.V. Simpson 4-12-1966 to 12- — -1971
• John Lutz 12- — -1971 to 6-6-1972
• Alfred O. Sick 6-2-1972 to 11-28-1978
• M. Stanley Jensen 11-28-1978 to 12-11-1990
• Jerome Jenny 12-11-1990 to 12-13-1994
• Mick Mines 12-13-1994 to 2002
• James Realph 2002 to present

*The names of Bedal & Williams were not in the original list compiled by the city clerk, but appear in the particle list noted in the source:  A History of Washington County, Nebraska, by Forrest B. Sharder, Magic City Printing Co. Omaha, Nebraska. 1937.   Page 345-346