Municipal Government
| President | Office and jurisdiction | Year(s) served |
|---|---|---|
| Martin Van Buren | Surrogate of Columbia County, New York | 1808–1812 |
| Abraham Lincoln | Postmaster of New Salem, Illinois | 1832–1833 |
| County Surveyor for Sangamon County, Illinois | 1833–1834 | |
| Andrew Johnson | Alderman, Greeneville, Tennessee | 1828–1830 |
| Mayor of Greeneville, Tennessee | 1830–1833 | |
| Grover Cleveland | Sheriff of Erie County, New York | 1871–1873 |
| Mayor of Buffalo, New York | 1881–1883 | |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Superintendent of the New York Board of Police Commissioners | 1895–1897 |
| Calvin Coolidge | Mayor of Northampton, Massachusetts | 1910–1911 |
| George Washington | County surveyor in Mount Vernon | 1749-1751? |
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“No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.”
—Alfred E. Smith (1873–1944)
“We have got rid of the fetish of the divine right of kings, and that slavery is of divine origin and authority. But the divine right of property has taken its place. The tendency plainly is towards ... “a government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich.””
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