7) MO: Dead mayor re-elected
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Harry Stonebraker was re-elected mayor of Winfield on Tuesday --
about a month after his death. Ballots had already been printed and
absentee voting had already begun when Stonebraker died of a heart
attack at age 69 on March 11. He won easily in Tuesday's general
election with 206 votes, or 90 percent. Alderman Bernie Panther got
the other 23 votes. Lincoln County Clerk Elaine Luck said she wasn't
surprised, noting Stonebraker was a popular mayor who helped lead the
community of 1,500 through the devastating 2008 flood, when a levee
breach caused by a burrowing muskrat left about 100 homes with
damage." (04/07/09)