The Political Graveyard: Oakland County, Mich.

Oakland County
Michigan

Oakland County information:

Population: 1,194,156 (2000); 1,083,592 (1990)
Land area 873 square miles.
County seat: Pontiac
Oakland County official web site.
Capital Impact: Oakland County -- officials, addresses, and political, economic, education data
USA MapStats: Oakland County -- census data on population, race, economics
Oakland County MIGenWeb page -- genealogical, historical information and queries
(if this link doesn't work, find the new one through the USGenWeb national site).
Oakland County page at Interment.Net (Cemetery Records Online).

Neighboring areas:

Northeast: Lapeer County
East: Macomb County
South: Wayne County
Southwest: Washtenaw County
West: Livingston County
Northwest: Genesee County

The Political Graveyard:

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Selected officials of Oakland County

(not intended to be complete)

Austin N. Kimmis (Sheriff, 1861-65) Aaron Perry (Prosecuting Attorney) Samuel W. Smith (Prosecuting Attorney, 1880-84) Kleber P. Rockwell (Prosecuting Attorney, 1899-04) Albert G. Griggs (Register of Deeds, 1901-02) Frank L. Covert (Prosecuting Attorney, 1905-10) Carl H. Pelton (Prosecuting Attorney, 1911-12) Spencer C. Howarth (Sheriff, 1935-44) Arthur E. Moore (Probate Judge) Farrell E. Roberts (Prosecuting Attorney, 1953-54) S. Jerome Bronson (Prosecuting Attorney, 1965-68) L. Brooks Patterson (Prosecuting Attorney, 1972-88) L. Brooks Patterson (County Executive, 1993-) Michael J. Bouchard (Sheriff, 1999-)

Politicians who died in Oakland County

No city given: Peter Van Every 1859 Edward L. Baker 1987
Birmingham: Rowland E. Trowbridge 1881 Ebenezer Raynale 1881
Bloomfield Hills: James C. Zeder 1975 George W. Romney 1995 Katherine Czarnecki 2001
Bloomfield Township: Thaddeus Machrowicz 1970
Farmington Hills: Stella Lecznar 1982 Murray D. Van Wagoner 1986
Ferndale: Paul Sutton 1970
Franklin: S. Jerome Bronson 1986
Novi: Samuel White 1871 Joseph P. Cloon 1974
Pontiac: John P. LeRoy 1867 Byron G. Stout 1896 Augustus C. Baldwin 1903 Franklin B. Galbraith 1903 R. Clark Reed 1936 Charles E. Yaeger 1972 Francis A. Crowley 1980 Clark J. Adams 1981 Henry L. Woolfenden 1988
Rochester Hills: Anthony J. Woldanski 1989
Royal Oak: George A. Dondero 1968 Maurice F. Cole 1977 Draper Allen 1980 Theodore J. Wilk 1996 Robert J. Huber 2001
Southfield: Charles S. Blondy 1982 Douglas A. Fraser 2008
Troy: Gilbert J. DiNello 1996
See also Mich. deathplaces not assigned to counties.

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