List of mayors of Poplar Bluff, Missouri

The city of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, is the third-most populous city in Missouri's 8th congressional district and southeastern Missouri.

The town was started in 1850. The city was incorporated on February 9, 1870.[1]

References

Missouri Secretary of State official manuals

  1. ↑ "History of Poplar Bluff". Retrieved 2014-10-28.

Key

Mayor Took office Left office Additional information
Joseph T. Davison
  • (born 1846)
 1883 Ohio-born Civil war veteran who served in the 68th Illinois Infantry and the 3rd Illinois Cavalry before moving to Poplar Bluff in 1874.[1]
Thomas Hugh Moore
  • (1846-1899)[2]
 1887 1887 In 1896, this general mercantile store operator was appointed Butler County collector by Governor William Stone.[3]
James Robert Hogg
  • (1863-1934)
 1897 1897 Farmer, meat merchant, sheriff, and distillery owner originally from Indiana.[4]
John W. Berryman[5]

(c. 1869-1940)[6]

 c. 1909 c. 1911
Robert G. Felts[7]
  • (1861-1918)
 c. 1914
John W. Berryman

(c. 1869-1940)[6]

 c. 1917 c. 1919[8] (He previously served as mayor.)
Edgar G. Hammons[9] c. 1926
John W. Berryman[11]
  • (c. 1869-1940)[6]
 c. 1927 (He previously served as mayor.)
Bayles K. Flannery c. 1929[12]
Z. Lee Stekley c. 1931[13]
Clyde E. Richardson 1945 A banker who previously resigned as mayor to join the Army Finance Corps during World War II.[15]
Arch W. Bartlett[16]
  • (1901-1985)
 1945 1946
Clyde E. Richardson
  • (1906-1977)
 1947 1949 (He previously served as mayor.)
E. W. Robinson
Arch W. Bartlett[16]
  • (1901-1985)
 1953 1953 (He previously served as mayor.)
E. W. Robinson 1954 1956[17]
John S. West 1957[18] 1963
Walter F. Thies
  • (1921-2011)
 He served as a U.S. Navy fighter pilot during World War II.[19]
Robert L. Odell U.S. Navy veteran of World War II and the Korean War[20]
J. C. Allen 1963 1967
Earl C. Porter 1967 1970
Louie N. Snider
  • (1923-2013)
 1970 1972 The first mayor of the present form of city government. Snider served in the Battle of the Bulge under General Patton.[22]
Harold Jackson 1972 1973
Bernard R. Wheetley
  • (1919-2003)
 1973 1975 Delegate to Republican National Convention from Missouri, 1964.[23]
Paul Henry Hillis
  • (born c. 1921)
 1975 1975 Hillis joined the Seabees during World War II. Dean of Three Rivers Community College.[24]
Bill I. Foster
  • (born 1946)
 1979 1980 Missouri state senator, 2001-2005; Missouri state representative, 1993-2001. Foster also served in the National Guard.[25]
Gerald Lynn Rains 1980 1981[26] Former Butler County Clerk, 1982-1986.[27]
Bill Sparks 1981 1982 Sparks served on the planning commission for Russellville, Arkansas, for 17 years.[28]
Thomas F. Allen
  • (1931-2012)
 1983 1984 Assistant Superintendent of Poplar Bluff public schools.[29]
Bruce E. Holloway
Bill Sparks 1985 1986 (He previously served as mayor.)
Robert P. MacDonald 1987 1988
Calvin M. Rutledge 1988 1989 Rutledge resigned during a later term to become director of the Black River Coliseum.[31][32]
Thomas J. Lawson
  • (born 1932)
 Lawson has also served as Poplar Bluff city manager and as chairman of the Highway 67 Corporation Board and the Highway 67 Coalition.[33]
Betty Absheer Betty Absheer was the first woman to serve as Mayor of Poplar Bluff. She was appointed to the City Council in 1989 and subsequently elected to a full term. She retired from the City Council in 2016. [34]
Ron Black 1996
Chris Rustin 1998
Reid Forrester
  • (born c. 1960)
 2000 Poplar Bluff City Council, 1996-2002. In 2005, he was appointed to the Board of Probation and Parole.[35] Chief of Staff to Lieutenant Governor Peter D. Kinder since 2015. [36]
Calvin Rutledge 2000 2000 (He previously served as mayor, 1988-1989.)
Johnny Brannum 2000[31]
Scott Faughn
  • (born 1980)
 2002 2005 Faughn was elected the city's youngest mayor at age 22.[37]
Loyd Lee Matthews
  • (1934-2014)
 Matthews served 3 years as mayor and 12 years on the city council. He served 4 years in the U.S. Navy around the time of the Korean War.
Susan Williams-McVey[38] c. 2007
Ed DeGaris[33] 2011 2014 Retired police lieutenant who was elected to the City Council in 2009.[39]
Angela Pearson 2014 2015 The city's youngest female mayor.[35][41]
Betty Absheer 2015 2016 With Councilwoman Angela Pearson absent for health reasons, the city council was deadlocked and unable to elect a mayor. All council members' names were put in a cup, and Ms. Absheer's name was drawn out of the cup by city attorney Robert L. Smith. Thus, she became the mayor for the 2015-2016 term. [42]
Ed DeGaris 2016
Key to party colors and abbreviations for members of the U.S. Congress
American (Know Nothing) (K-N)
Adams (A),
Anti-Jacksonian (Anti-J),
National Republican (NR)
Anti-Administration (Anti-Admin)
Anti-Masonic (Anti-M)
Conservative (Con)
Democratic (D)
Dixiecrat (Dix),
States' rights (SR)
Democratic-Republican (D-R)
Farmer–Labor (FL)
Federalist (F)
Free Soil (FS)
Free Silver (FSv)
Fusion (FU)
Greenback (GB)
Jacksonian (J)
Nonpartisan League (NPL)
Nullifier (N)
Opposition (O)
Populist (Pop)
Pro-Administration (Pro-Admin)
Progressive (Prog)
Prohibition (Proh)
Readjuster (Rea)
Republican (R)
Socialist (Soc)
Unionist (U)
Whig (W)
Independent,
None,
or Unaffiliated
  1. ↑ "Butler county Missouri,"A View of A Growing Town"". Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  2. ↑ Howard L. Conard (1901). Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri: A Compendium of History ..., Volume 4. New York: Indiana University Press.
  3. ↑ "The Historic and Architectural Resources of Poplar Bluff, Missouri" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  4. ↑ "Index to Politicians: Hogg". Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  5. ↑ "City Directory of Poplar Bluff, Missouri 1911" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  6. 1 2 3 "John W. Berryman, Former Bluff Mayor, Dies of Paralysis". Southeast Missourian. Cape Girardeau, Missouri. December 31, 1940.
  7. ↑ "City Directory of Poplar Bluff, Missouri 1914" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  8. ↑ "City Directory of Poplar Bluff, Missouri 1919" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  9. ↑ "City Directory of Poplar Bluff, Missouri 1926" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  10. ↑ "Missouri Death Certificates, 1910–1963" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-10-25.
  11. ↑ "Southeast Missouri News". Southeast Missourian. Cape Girardeau, Missouri. July 7, 1927.
  12. ↑ "City Directory of Poplar Bluff, Missouri 1929" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  13. ↑ "City Directory of Poplar Bluff, Missouri 1931" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  14. ↑ "City Directory of Poplar Bluff, Missouri 1945" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  15. ↑ "Clyde Richardson". Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  16. 1 2 "Index to Politicians: Bartlett". Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  17. ↑ "Index to Politicians: Robinson, E to F". Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  18. ↑ "Index to Politicians: West to Westby". Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  19. ↑ "Tributes.com: Walter F. Thies". Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  20. ↑ "House Resolution No. 52" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  21. ↑ "Earl C Porter (1913-1988)". Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  22. ↑ "Tributes: Louie Snider". Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  23. ↑ "Index to Politicians: Wheeler-smith to Whipper". Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  24. ↑ "Missouri State Society Daughters of the American Revolution: Patriot of the Month, September 2014" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  25. ↑ "Legislator Papers Bill I. Foster, 1993-2005" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-28. Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  26. ↑ "New Bluff Mayor". Southeast Missourian. Cape Girardeau, Missouri. April 21, 1981.
  27. ↑ "At a Glance Missouri: Former Mayor Sentenced". The Nevada Daily Mail. Nevada, Missouri. April 27, 1987.
  28. ↑ "Sparks to fill Ginsberg's place on ballot". Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  29. ↑ "Thomas F. Allen". Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  30. ↑ "Former Mayor Sentenced to 25 Years For Cocaine Trafficking". Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  31. 1 2 "Brannum Elected Mayor by Poplar Bluff Board". Southeast Missourian. Cape Girardeau, Missouri. September 7, 2000.
  32. ↑ "Tommy Dorsey Orchestra swings into Poplar Bluff". Southeast Missourian. Cape Girardeau, Missouri. October 9, 2001.
  33. 1 2 "Hwy. 67 Celebration Friday City to Honor Lawson". 2011-08-21. Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  34. ↑ "City manager panel named". 2014-05-21. Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  35. 1 2 "Blunt names area man to parole board". 2014-10-12. Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  36. ↑ http://ltgov.mo.gov/lt-governors-office-staff/
  37. ↑ "Former Region 8 Mayor Faces Four Felony Charges". 2005-02-28. Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  38. ↑ "Susan McVey". Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  39. ↑ "New Poplar Bluff Mayor may Still Sue City". 2011-04-21. Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  40. ↑ "Rockethub: Angela Pearson". Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  41. ↑ "Tables turn as political novice becomes mayor of Poplar Bluff". 2014-04-23. Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  42. ↑
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