The Political Graveyard: Washtenaw County, Mich.

Washtenaw County
Michigan

Washtenaw County information:

Population: 322,895 (2000); 282,937 (1990)
Land area 710 square miles.
County seat: Ann Arbor
Washtenaw County official web site.
Capital Impact: Washtenaw County -- officials, addresses, and political, economic, education data
USA MapStats: Washtenaw County -- census data on population, race, economics
Washtenaw County MIGenWeb page -- genealogical, historical information and queries
(if this link doesn't work, find the new one through the USGenWeb national site).
Washtenaw County page at Interment.Net (Cemetery Records Online).

Neighboring areas:

North: Livingston County
Northeast: Oakland County
East: Wayne County
Southeast: Monroe County
Southwest: Lenawee County
West: Jackson County
Northwest: Ingham County

The Political Graveyard:

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Selected officials of Washtenaw County

(not intended to be complete)

Samuel W. Dexter (County Judge, 1826-27) Horace Carpenter (County Treasurer, 1863-64) Hiram J. Beakes (Probate Judge, 1864-72) John J. Robison (County Clerk, 1869-72) Edwin F. Uhl (Prosecuting Attorney, 1871-72) Edward P. Allen (Prosecuting Attorney, 1873-74) John J. Robison (County Clerk, 1883-86) John P. Kirk (Prosecuting Attorney, 1897-1900) H. Wirt Newkirk (Probate Judge, 1897-1900) Frank T. Newton (Sheriff, 1905-06) Horatio J. Abbott (Register of Deeds, 1909-12) George J. Burke (Prosecuting Attorney, 1911-14) William M. Laird (Circuit Court Commissioner, 1917-20) Harry H. Atwell (County Surveyor, 1921-30) Lee N. Brown (Circuit Court Commissioner) William M. Laird (Prosecuting Attorney, 1923-26) Frank H. Ticknor (County Treasurer, 1927-34) Harry H. Atwell (County Clerk, 1933-34) George Meader (Prosecuting Attorney, 1941-42) Jack J. Garris (Circuit Court Commissioner, 1955) Frederick J. Schwall (County Commissioner) Nancy L. Davis (County Treasurer, 1993-94) Lawrence Kestenbaum (Commissioner 4th District, 2000-02) Lawrence Kestenbaum (County Clerk and Register of Deeds, 2005-)

Politicians who died in Washtenaw County

Ann Arbor: Charles Kellogg 1842 William S. Maynard 1866 Bradley F. Granger 1882 Silas H. Douglass 1890 James Mitchell Ashley 1896 Alpheus Felch 1896 Thomas M. Cooley 1898 Francis M. Hamilton 1914 Charles A. Sauer 1915 James B. Angell 1916 Horatio J. Abbott 1936 Junius E. Beal 1942 William C. Manchester 1943 Louis H. Fead 1943 Charles U. Champion 1949 Blair Moody 1954 Leigh J. Young 1960 Charles T. Prescott 1961 Fred C. Fischer 1963 Carl R. Henry 1966 George J. Burke, Jr. 1971 Roscoe O. Bonisteel 1972 Charles A. Sink 1972 S. Martin Tweedie, Jr. 1973 Jesse Ormondroyd 1975 Lester J. Allen 1976 Lewis G. Christman 1979 Rene A. Carreau 1980 Bert C. Brennan 1985 Cecil O. Creal 1986 Sarah Goddard Power 1987 Donald E. Koster 1987 Lester O. Begick 1991 Ralph W. Muncy 1992 George Meader 1994 Lydia B. Muncy 1996 Marjorie Lansing 1998 Neil Staebler 2000 Leonard Woodcock 2001 Dominick A. DeVarti 2001 William F. Dannemiller 2001 Edward C. Pierce 2002 Thomas L. Gadola 2003 Marguerite Eaglin 2004 Gerald D. Jernigan 2006 Faz Husain 2006 George C. Furton 2006
Near Chelsea: Frank P. Glazier 1922
Dexter: Samuel W. Dexter 1863 Frank J. Forshee 1991
Manchester: John B. Swainson 1994
Northfield Township: Alanson Doty 1866
Pittsfield Township: Heman Ticknor 1864 John Allison 1874 W. Alfred Hutzel 1932 Leslie A. Wikel 1959 Ray L. Forshee 1974
Saline: Carl H. Read 1980
Scio Township: Robert J. Harris 2005
Superior Township: Talbot Smith 1978 Beth W. Milford 1992 Margaret Towsley 1994 H. Gardner Ackley 1998 Emil Lockwood 2002 Jack J. Garris 2005 Clyde K. King 2007
York Township: Frank Norton 1947
Ypsilanti: Samuel D. McDowell 1870 Francis P. Bogardus 1900 Byron M. Cutcheon 1908 Edward P. Allen 1909 Emery R. Beal 1939
See also Mich. deathplaces not assigned to counties.

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