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the Mayors of Miamisburg
The first election for mayor of Miamisburg was held on May 7, 1832, at the home of Jacob Winger on South Main Street. The Washington House hotel was built on the site; now the Plaza Theater is there.
Gooding Holloway: 1832
James Morton: 1833
James Smith: 1835 (resigned)
C S Drake: 1836 (appointed)
William Goudy: 1837
Silas H Smith: 1838, 1843, 1846
Joseph Fisk: 1839
William Hudson: 1840
Joseph Fisk: 1841
Peter Reichard: 1842
Benjamin Suddath: 1844, 1848 (resigned)
William Goudy: 1845
Adam Clay (appointed to finish Suddath's term 1849), 1850, 1851
Mathias S Blossom: 1852
Nathan Thayer Beals: 1853
Thomas Venard Lyons: 1855, 1857
Cornelius Boltin: 1859
Frederick Christman Fox: 1861
John Evans Kinder: 1864
Augustus Jackson Eminger: 1866
John Henry Grove: 1870 (resigned)
Michael Cassady: 1871 (filled Grove's unfinished term)
J B Miller: 1872, 1874, 1876 (resigned October 1876, left town)
Emanuel Shultz: 1876 (appointed by council)
Jacob Hetzel: 1876 (elected to finish Miller's term)
Lewis H Zehring: 1878, 1887 (appointed), 1896
Herman C Plate: 1884
Charles E Kinder: 1886 (served one year, appointed Postmaster)
William A Reiter: 1888 (resigned to go to State Legislature 1889), 1904, 1906, 1908
Jacob Hetzel: 1889 (appointed), 1890, 1894 (appointed)
Charles E Kinder: 1892 (appointed Postmaster, resigned 1894)
Charles A Simonton: 1894
Andrew R Stocker: 1898, 1900 (resigned 1901), 1903, 1910
Carl F Shuler: 1901 (appointed), 1902
Thomas Venard Lyons, Jr: 1912
William A Jansen: 1914, 1916
Harry Elwood Weaver: 1918
William R Hughes: 1920, 1922 (resigned for health reasons)
Edward T Munea: 1922 (President of Council, assumed Hughes' duties), 1924
Harry E "Flick" Beachler: 1926, 1928, 1930, 1932, 1934, 1940, 1942)
Lawrence M Dissinger: 1936, 1938
Carl Cole: 1944, 1946
Walter Staley: 1948, 1950, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1962
James Kurtz: 1952
Vern Simonton: 1960
Harold Haklik: 1964
Paul Stevick: 1966
Robert Mears, Sr: 1968 (re-elected through 1987)
Don Lucas: 1988
Richard C Church, Jr: 1992 (re-elected through 2019)
Michelle Collins: 2020