Allegany County Campaigns

Edward C. Athey (1935-2014) was first elected to the Cumberland City Council in 1982, and was the top vote-getter in the General Election with 3,629 votes. As noted here in a May 1982 Cumberland News campaign advertisement, Athey’s slogan was “I Want to Serve Our Queen City.” Athey was re-elected in 1984 and served on the council until 1986. In 1992 Athey was elected Mayor of Cumberland, and re-elected to that position again in 1994, 1996, and 1998 serving in that capacity until 2000. At that time he was defeated in his re-election bid by Lee N. Fiedler.

George M. Wyckoff Jr. (1928-2003) served as Mayor of Cumberland from 1982-1990, having been re-elected in 1984, 1986, and 1988. As seen here from a May 1982 ad in the Cumberland News during his first campaign, Wyckoff’s slogan was “Let’s Change Cumberland’s Image Together.” Wyckoff garnered 3,839 votes in the 1982 election to Wallace G. Ullery’s total of 1,811 votes. Wyckoff’s campaign Treasurer was George C. Stein.

Francis G. Philpot , a Republican, certainly had a suitable name for the office he held upon election as Allegany County Treasurer. Raymond Walker served as his campaign Treasurer. Philpot would also go on to serve as an Allegany County Commissioner from 1982-1986.

Robert Little Ebert (1916-2010),a Republican and a former City of Cumberland Councilman, was elected to the Board of Allegany County Commissioners in 1962, and was re-elected in 1966 serving through 1970.

Raymond W. Walker , 1938-2022, a Republican, was sworn in as Acting Clerk of the Circuit Court in June 1974 to complete the term of Paul Haberlein who passed away in office. Walker would serve seven terms beginning in 1974 through July 2001 as the Allegany County Clerk of the Circuit Court. Lee C. Barnett served as his campaign Treasurer.

Dawne D. Lindsey , a Republican, was appointed to the position of Allegany County Clerk of the Circuit Court in July 2001. She was later elected to the position in 2002, and in 2006, 2010 and

James J. Stakem, a Democrat, was first elected to the Board of Allegany County Commissioners in 1998. He was re-elected to a second four-year term in 2002, and was re-elected a third time in 2006. The door hanger depicted here, with his slogan, “A True Representative for All of Allegany County” is from that campaign. Stakem’s campaign treasurer was Phil Davis. Jim Stakem lost his bid for re-election to County Commissioner in the September 14, 2010 Democratic primary.

Jim Stakem
Past Four Years Supported:
Substantial increases to education

Burton Smith, a Republican, was elected to and served on the Board of Allegany Commissioners beginning in 1966. He was re-elected to a second term serving again from 1970-1974.

Rose G. Hay (1919-2009), a Democrat, was initially appointed by Governor Marvin Mandel to fill a vacancy as judge on the Allegany County Orphan’s Court. She would later run for this position and in 1978 became the first woman elected to the Orphan’s Court. Re-elected in 1982 she would serve as Chief Judge until her retirement in 1986. Delores F. Ortiz served as her Treasurer. Rose identified herself with “Honesty and Integrity” and always asked that you “Remember me to your friends.”

R. Neil Williams, Wallace G. Ullery (who had served as the City Clerk of Cumberland and had also been elected to the Cumberland City Council), William J. Truly, Jr., C. Cecil “Cec” Warnick, Edward E. Truly, and Virgil C. Alexander have all at one time or another been candidates for the Allegany County Republican State Central Committee. Neil Williams (1926-2012) served for a number of years on the Allegany County Board of Education and was also an elected member of the Westernport Town Council.

Luther C. “Luke” Cox asked, “Let me FIGHT for you.” He along with Bill King, Joseph F. Neder, Ira W. Whittington, James Orr (who served two terms as Allegany County Commissioner from 1950-1958), and Cora Bowser have been among the many who sought election, or re-election as in King, Orr, and Bowser’s case, to the Allegany County Republican State Central Committee. Luther Cox also ran, unsuccessfully, for a seat on the Cumberland City Council, once in 1978, and again in 1982.

Paul W. Barnett, Mildred Clark, William T. Eady, Edwin M. Horchler,and Herman D. Sathoff who with Thomas B. Cumiskey as his Treasurer campaigned as “A Democrat for Progress”, have also all been candidates who sought your vote and support for the Allegany County Democratic State Central Committee.