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Community of LeRoy
Mayors
McLean County, Illinois

(Transcribed by: Teri Moncelle Colglazier)

Thirty-one mayors have served LeRoy since August, 1874 when the city charter was adopted. The first mayor served less than a year until the first regular election in 1875. LeRoy mayoral elections are held in odd-numbered years. Mayors were elected for two-year terms until 1937 when four-year terms were instituted by statute. Mayoral election years and mayors who were elected and served LeRoy follow: 1874 -- M. S. Stout 1875 -- J. W. Wright 1877 -- J. M. Suggett & Samuel B. Barnum (appointed to fill term) 1879 -- A. B. Johnson 1881 -- Joseph Patterson 1883 -- Zachariah Chick 1885 -- J. Keenan 1887 -- M. R. Galusha 1889 -- Amos Rutledge 1891 -- George W. Payne 1893 -- Joseph Keenan 1895 -- Thomas Clarey 1897 -- W. H. Dooley & Amos Rutledge (elected to fill term) 1899 -- Wiliam H. Cline 1901 -- Oscar Bonnett & T. W. Vanatta (appointed to fill term) 1903, 1905, 1907 -- T. W. Vanatta 1909 -- J. A. Tuthill 1911 -- L. A. Vasey 1913, 1915 -- A. G. Bailey 1917 -- Z. T. Strayer 1919 -- A. G. Bailey 1921 -- H. H. Crumbaugh 1923 -- Z. T. Strayer 1925 -- E. F. Hall 1927 -- William H. Cline 1929, 1931 -- Clark A. Smith 1933 -- Rev. Oceola McNemar 1935 -- George B. Strayer 1937, 1941, 1945 -- Lyle V. Morgan 1949 -- Merle A. Schlosser 1953 -- William D. Vance 1957, 1961 -- Charles H. Henson 1965, 1969 -- Edward B. Williams 1973 -- O. J. Lere [Heritage of the prairie : a history of LeRoy and of Empire and West townships, McLean County, Illinois (1976) LeRoy Historical Society; LeRoy Bi-Centennial Commission]

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