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- ↑ "HISTORY OF BECKLEY AND RALEIGH COUNTY - Mayors". Jeff Miller. Retrieved August 4, 2024.
- ↑ Berkeley, Edmund; Berkeley, Dorothy Smith (1975). "The First Librarian of Congress: John Beckley". The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress. 32 (2): 83–117. JSTOR 29781617.
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- United States Congress. "List of mayors of Beckley, West Virginia (id: S000580)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress .
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- ↑ "WV MetroNews – New mayor in Beckley". Wvmetronews.com. January 3, 2014. Retrieved July 19, 2017.
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