firehyd.jpg (6135 bytes)HENDERSON CITY OFFICIALS

Our Thanks to Nancy Jackson, City Secretary, who provided us with the names of the past and present mayors and councilmembers of Henderson, Texas.

Mayors

E. B. Alford

1911-1914

D. R. Harris

1914-1924

A. J. Deason

1924-1926

O. S. Rogers

1926-1936

M. H. Marwil

1936-1940

Pete McNee

1940-1942

Fred C. Culp

1942-1946

L.H. Reed

1946-1956

C. H. Matthews

1956-1962

Odell Poovey

1962-1968

Fred C. Culp, Jr

1968-1970

A. J. Croom

1970-1974

Emett M. Gibson

1974-1980

Lester(Lefty) Brown

1980-1990

Tony Wooster

1990-1992

Brad Holmes

1992-1994

Chester Johnson

1994-1996

Wallace Read

1996-

 Henderson has been incorporated several times.  The list above gives the names of mayors since the city's last election to incorporate. The name of the earliest mayor for Henderson so far identified was William Clark Buford, who was serving in 1877.

 Councilmembers

E. B. Alford

1956-1960

Noble Davis

1956-1960

J.M. Almand

1959-1961

Floyd Holland

1959-1061

W. W. Orr

1957-1961

Wes Dean

1961-1963

Fred C. Culp, Jr

1957-1959

1961-1966

G. A. Sportsman

1961-1965

Earl Gibson

1960-1970

W. Mayes Hale

1964-1970

T.N. McCarty

1965-1971

M.L. Allen

Apr 1933-Jul 1935

1963-1967

Rand Cates

1971-1973

Hugh Cooper

1962-1964

Emmett Gibson

1965-1974

Keenan Barrett

1970-1976

Carolyn Parker

1974-1977

Foy Brown

1977-1979

W. E. Strong

1979-1983

Dale Sloan

1979-1983

Ralph Farley

1971-1975

William Lacy

1960-1962

Lee Allen

1983-1987

Lavern Gibson

1975-1979

1980-1989

Ivan Willard

1973-1986

Robert B. Slover

1974-1986

Suzanne Cross

1986-1995

George Washington

1986-May 16, 1991

Fred Armstrong

1986-1992

Sandy Snelgrove

1987-1991

John McCoy

5-28-91-

Jere Fred Culp

1991-

Charles W. Preston

1989-

Thomas Ward

1994-

Janet Nilsen

1995-

    

John McCoy was appointed to serve unexpired term of George Washington.