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Spangler

Flagg

E. Raines

Hamm

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1870s

1-year term

Nathan J. Stark

1871 - 1872
1872 - 1874

John A. Cannon

1874 - 1875

Nathan J. Stark

1875 - 1876

Edward Berg

1876 - 1877

Dave Rorick

1877 - 1878

A. M. Dunham

1878 - 1879

James Durbin

1879 - 1881

A. M. Dunham

1880s

Millard F. Taylor

1881 - 1882
1882 - 1883

Dr. David Surber

1883 - 1884

Henry W. Spangler

1884 - 1886

Tom Kirby

1886 - 1889

Thomas Lee

1889 - 1890

Dr. Eldridge D. Flagg

1890s

L. E. Merrill

1890 - 1891
1891 - 1893

Benjamin F. Empie

1893 - 1894

Millard F. Taylor

1894 - 1895

Dr. Patrick Burns

1895 - 1896

Millard F. Taylor

1896 - 1899

James L. Raines

1899 - 1911

Fred L. Diggs

1899 - 1901
1901 - 1902

Thomas Lee

1902 - 1903

William C. Ingle

1903 - 1907

Dr. Eldridge D. Flagg

1907 - 1908

Edmund T. Arnold

1908 - 1909

Stephen. J. Pemberton

1909 - 1910

E. W. Jette

Ernest L. Raines

1910 - 1911

1911 - 1939

1911 - 1913

Dr. Eldridge D. Flagg

2-year term
1913 - 1919

Merrill L. Taylor

Arthur C. Elswick

1919 - 1921
1921 - 1923

W. B. Dunham

1923 - 1925

Willard B. Good

1925 - 1933

P. H. Oliver

1933 - 1939

Leonard Knapp

1939 - 1955

Paul R. LeGer

1939 - 1941
1941 - 1947

Jack W. Welter

1947 - 1951

William W. Oliver

1951 - 1953

Norman R. Hamm

1953 - 1955

Willard B. Good

1955 - 1959

No records have been found (yet...)

1959 - 1979

Roy Dent

1959 - 1963
1963 - 1965

Paul Wood

1965 - 1967

Frank Obenland

1967 - 1973

Norman R. Hamm

Hugh Seetin

1973 - 1979

1979 - Present

4-year term
1979 - 1991

James Abel

1991 - 2007

Matt Wilkomm

Michael Lang

2007 - 2019
2019 - 2023

Clay McHardie

2023 - 

Ramon C. Gonzalez II

Bibliography: 

County Clerk's Office, County of Jefferson, Kansas. 

Kaw Valley Chief (or The Perry Monitor), 1879-1884. Perry, Kansas. https://newspapers.com

Oskaloosa Independent, 1860-2001. Oskaloosa, Kansas. https://newspapers.com

Oskaloosa Sickle, 1873-1886. Oskaloosa, Kansas. https://newspapers.com

Perry Mirror, 1898-1923, 1954. Perry, Kansas. https://newspapers.com

Perry Pride History Committee and Mr. Thomas Hotchkiss

Complied by: Bryan Karten

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