Joseph H. Bunce

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Joseph H. Bunce was the eighteenth Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky from 1869 to 1870. He was a steamboat captain until the mid-1860s, when he founded a wholesale grocery firm. Typical of Louisville steamboat captains, he lived with his family in the Portland district.

A democrat, he ran against future mayor John G. Baxter and police chief Robert Gilchriest in 1869. Despite not being endorsed by the democratic party or the Courier-Journal, Bunce won by 300 votes over Baxter.

He was elected to a two year term, but the city charter was changed in 1870 to allow for a three-year term and Bunce chose to run again for a new term, and was defeated this time by Baxter.

[edit] References

Yater, George H. (1987). Two Hundred Years at the Fall of the Ohio: A History of Louisville and Jefferson County, 2nd edition, Louisville, KY: Filson Club, Incorporated. ISBN 0-9601072-3-1.
"Joseph H. Bunce". The Encyclopedia of Louisville (1). (2001).

Preceded by Philip Tomppert	Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky 1869–March 1870	Succeeded by John G. Baxter

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