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This is a list of mayors of Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America.

Mayors

Pre strong mayor format

Here's the list sorted by year:

• John Beckley, 1872 & 1884-1896 (Founder of Beckley)
• Thaddeus K. Scott, 1891
• Robert T. Willis, 1893
• Thaddeus K. Scott, 1894
• Capt. John W. Anderson, 1897
• John Wallace McCreery, 1898–1899
• J. E. Summerfield, 1900
• John Wallace McCreery, 1901
• George A. Cook, 1901
• A. D. Preston, 1902
• John H. Hatcher, 1903
• Ashton File, 1904
• Joe L. Smith, 1906
• Hugh A. Dunn, 1907
• Joe L. Smith, 1908-1909
• Lucien Hereford Davis, 1910–1911
• Thomas H. Wickham, 1911
• M. L. Painter, 1912–1913
• Dr. W. W. Watts, 1914–1915
• Hugh A. Davis, 1916–1917
• Herbert A. Stansbury, 1918–1919
• Dr. J. A. Campbell, 1920–1921
• C. V. Cottle, 1922–1923
• Herbert A. Stansbury, 1924–1925
• J. Hugh Miller, 1926–1927
• Joe L. Smith, 1928-1929
• George W. Bair Jr., 1929
• Cyrus H. Meador, 1930–1931
• Grover C. Hedrick, 1932–1933
• A. Z. Lilly, 1934–1935
• Robert Wriston, 1936–1937
• A. K. Minter, 1938–1939
• A. K. Minter, 1940–1941
• A. K. Minter, 1942–1943
• Robert Wriston, 1944–1945
• Walter A. E. Burke, 1946–1947
• Grover C. Hedrick, 1948–1949
• Walter A. E. Burke, 1950–1951
• George Chambers, 1952–1953
• Elmer L. Davis, 1954–1955
• A. K. Minter, 1956–1959
• Cecil Miller, 1959–1963
• John Wesley Smith, 1963–1970
• John Howard McCulloch, 1970–1982
• Charles F. Shoemaker, 1983–1987
• Emmett S. Pugh III, 1988–2013
• William A. O'Brien, 2014–2016
• Robert Rappold, 2016–Present

See also

• Beckley, West Virginia

References

1. "HISTORY OF BECKLEY AND RALEIGH COUNTY - Mayors". Jeff Miller. Retrieved August 4, 2024.
2. Berkeley, Edmund; Berkeley, Dorothy Smith (1975). "The First Librarian of Congress: John Beckley". The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress. 32 (2): 83–117. JSTOR 29781617.
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   • United States Congress. "List of mayors of Beckley, West Virginia (id: S000580)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
4. "City of Beckley". Archived from the original on March 7, 2012. Retrieved April 3, 2012.
5. "WV MetroNews – New mayor in Beckley". Wvmetronews.com. January 3, 2014. Retrieved July 19, 2017.

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