Joseph H. Bunce

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.

References

Yater, George H. (1987). Two Hundred Years at the Fall of the Ohio: A History of Louisville and Jefferson County (2nd edition ed.). Louisville, KY: Filson Club, Incorporated. ISBN 0-9601072-3-1.
"Joseph H. Bunce". The Encyclopedia of Louisville (1 ed.). 2001. p. 146.

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

Mayors of Louisville Kentucky

Bucklin • Joyes • Cocke • Kaye • Beatty • Vance • Delph • Speed • Barbee • Pilcher • Riley • Crawford • Kaye • Tomppert • Lithgow • Bunce • Baxter • Jacob • Reed • Lyons • Tyler • King • Todd • Weaver • Grainger • Barth • Bingham • Grinstead • Head • Buschemeyer • Smith • Quin • Will • O'Neal • Harrison • Miller • Scholtz • Wyatt • Taylor • Farnsley • Broaddus • Hoblitzell • Cowger • Schmied • Burke • Sloane • Stansbury • Sloane • Abramson • Armstrong • Abramson • Fischer

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Name	Bunce, Joseph H.
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