PAST BURGESSES AND MAYORS OF GREENE COUNTY
Burgesses: 18621960 & Mayors: 1961present
OVERVIEW A burgess is an elected or un-elected official of a municipality, i.e., a magistrate or a mayor.
Following is a listing of individuals who served as Burgesses in the past, this office no longer exists, now referenced as Mayor, listed with the dates of their elections.
CARMICAHELS BOROUGH:
1945 Burgess F. F. Solomon
1949 Burgess Frank W. Barbe (re-elected in 1953)
1957 Burgess John McCann
1961 Mayor Kenneth A. Forsyth
1965 Mayor Paul W. Connor (re-elected in 1969, 1973, 1977)
1981 Mayor Robert A. Dobbins
1985 Mayor Edward M. Zalar (re-elected in 1989)
1993 Mayor Ruth Enci (D)
2009 Mayor Mike Dohanich
CLARKSVILLE BOROUGH:
1945 Burgess Stanley Fowler (D)
1949 Burgess George Trout
1953 Burgess Frank Largent
1957 Burgess Peter Sabo
1961 Mayor Homer Bennett
1965 Mayor Ann Marie Rota (re-elected in 1969, 1973, 1977)
1981 Mayor Bernard M. Cirota (re-elected in 1985)
1989 Mayor Dawn Carter
1993 Mayor Bernard M. Circota
2009 Mayor Samuel A. Benyi (D)
GREENSBORO BOROUGH:
1945 Burgess Joseph Kalis
1949 Burgess Ernest Babler (re-elected in 1953)
1957 Burgess Reed Miller
1961 Mayor Reed Miller
1965 Mayor Sam Burich (re-elected in 1969)
1973 Mayor Harry E. Drew (re-elected in 1977, 1981, 1985)
1989 Mayor Bruce Neino
1993 Mayor Rick Prodolinski
2009 Mayor Arnie Bowser (D)
JEFFERSON BOROUGH:
1945 Burgess O. G. Enstrom
1949 Burgess Thomas Coneybeer
1953 Burgess Ivan Guesman
1957 Burgess Dewey G. Mosholder
1961 Mayor Dewey G. Mosholder
1965 Mayor Elizabeth Sahady (re-elected in 1969)
1973 Mayor George Trbovich
1977 Mayor Gary Minnear
1981 Mayor Bill Lemley
1985 Mayor Robert Davis
1989 Mayor Melvin E. Lemley
1993 Mayor Pete Arigoni
2007 Mayor Sandra K. Dulik (D)
2009 Mayor Edward A. Shipley (D)
MT. MORRIS BOROUGH:
On September 13, 1949, the residents of the borough approved a referendum (yes, 91; no, 31) which annulled the borough charter and returned the territory to Perry Township.
1945 Burgess Louis Diehl (re-elected in 1949)
Source of Mt. Morris Borough Information: The History of Greene County Pennsylvania by G. Wayne Smith (Vol II, Part VIII, Government, pg 1129)
RICES LANDING BOROUGH:
1945 Burgess William Gray (re-elected in 1949)
1953 Burgess Robert W. Bell (re-elected in 1957)
1961 Mayor U. P. Rembold
1965 Mayor Lee Albacker
1969 Mayor John W. Clarchick (re-elected in 1973)
1977 Mayor Ralph Benjamin Roseberry (re-elected in 1981)
1985 Mayor Dean Virgili
1989 Mayor Palph Benjamin Roseberry (re-elected in 1993)
2009 Mayor Ryan T. Belski (D)
WAYNESBURG BOROUGH:
1862 Burgess A. G. Cross
1868 Burgess G. W. G. Waddell
1869 Burgess A. G. Cross
1872 Burgess W. T. E. Webb
1873-1874 Burgess G. W. G. Waddell
1876 Burgess R. F. Downey
xx Burgess J. W. Ray
xx Burgess D. S. Walton
xx Burgess John Guiher
xx Burgess W. E. Miner
xx Burgess T. R. Purman
1887-1888 Burgess Robert A. Sayers
years from 1888 to 1949 are being researched
1949 Burgess R. Wallace Maxwell
1953 Burgess Fay Headlee
1957 Burgess R. D. Carroll
1961 Mayor Roy Shultz
1965 Mayor Wilma S. Milliken
1969 Mayor John R. Throckmorton (re-elected in 1973)
1977 Mayor Floyd H. Turner
1979 Mayor John H. Cassidy
1981 Mayor Roy L. Huffman
1985 Mayor Kyle F. Eddy (re-elected in 1989)
1993 Mayor John McCall
1995 Mayor Kyle F. Eddy
2007 Mayor Stanford Blair Zimmerman (re-elected in 2009) (D)
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