Selected officials of Wayne County

(not intended to be complete)

Alexander W. Buel (Prosecuting Attorney, 1843-46) Charles Flowers (Circuit Court Commissioner, 1881-84) Joseph M. Weiss (Circuit Court Commissioner) John S. Haggerty (Road Commissioner) Philip T. Van Zile (Prosecuting Attorney, 1911) Paul W. Voorhies (Prosecuting Attorney, 1921-24) Harry S. Toy (Prosecuting Attorney, 1931-34) Leo J. Nowicki (Drain Commissioner, 1933-36) Elmer B. O'Hara (County Clerk, 1933-36) Thomas C. Wilcox (Sheriff, 1933-40) Harold E. Stoll (Register of Deeds, 1933-42) Fred C. Fischer (Superintendent of Schools, 1935-54) Andrew C. Baird (Sheriff, 1940-46) Edward Behrendt (Sheriff, 1947-48) Harold E. Stoll (County Clerk, 1947-63) Andrew C. Baird (Sheriff, 1949-63) Peter L. Buback (Sheriff, 1963-68) William L. Cahalan (Prosecuting Attorney, 1967-83) Roman S. Gribbs (Sheriff, 1968-69) Joseph B. Sullivan (County Clerk, 1970) Charmie Currie (County Commissioner) William Lucas (Sheriff, 1970-82) Charles N. Youngblood (Drain Commissioner, 1973-88) Robert A. Ficano (Sheriff, 1983-2002) William Lucas (County Executive, 1983-86) Edward H. McNamara (County Executive, 1987-2002) Teola Hunter (County Clerk, 1993-96) Robert A. Ficano (County Executive, 2003-) Warren C. Evans (Sheriff, 2003-)

Politicians who were born in Wayne County

• Belleville: Frank Cody 1870
• Near Belleville: Joseph Merrell 1859 Frederick C. Rowe 1872
• Dearborn: Gilbert R. Lyon 1835 Henry A. Haigh 1854 Edward J. Robinson 1933 John Christian Kornblum 1943 David Brandon 1952
• Dearborn Heights: Bob Brown 1957
• Dearborn Township (part now in Dearborn): Henry Ford 1863
• Detroit:
  Robert Abbott 1770 John R. Williams 1782 Henry H. Sibley 1811 Daniel J. Campeau 1813 David H. Jerome 1829 J. Logan Chipman 1830 Thomas W. Palmer 1830 Edward H. Butler 1841 Henry M. Duffield 1842 William C. Maybury 1848 Louis E. Tossy 1849 Albert Stoll 1852 Henry Munroe Campbell 1854 George S. Hosmer 1855 William H. Jones 1855 Joseph M. Weiss 1856 Louis N. Hilsendegen 1856 Paul Morton 1857 William W. Ferguson 1857 George B. Davis 1858 John C. Lodge 1862 Truman H. Newberry 1864 Philip Breitmeyer 1864 David E. Heineman 1865 Andrew F. Toepel 1866 Robert Patterson Lamont 1867 Alfred J. Murphy 1868 George P. Codd 1869 Walter B. Brady 1870 Charles H. Culver 1870 Henry M. Butzel 1871 Franz C. Kuhn 1872 William P. Scullen 1873 Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. 1873 Frederick Hale 1874 Frederick W. B. Coleman 1874 George G. Scott 1874 George F. Monaghan 1875 Harold H. Emmons 1875 James D. Jerome 1875 John Atkinson 1875 Charles C. Simons 1876 Frederick M. Alger 1876 William H. Martz 1877 Leo J. Keena 1878 M. Hubert O'Brien 1878 Charles H. Baxter 1879 Hugh J. Wood c.1880 Reilly Atkinson, Sr. 1880 William B. Wreford c.1880 Robert H. Clancy 1882 John B. Sosnowski 1883 John B. Murphy 1883 William M. Donnelly 1885 Adolph F. Marschner 1885 Louis C. Rabaut 1886 James W. Hanley 1886 Ralph W. Liddy 1886 Charles S. Kennedy 1887 Patrick J. Doyle 1888 Carol Newberry Brooks 1888 Eugene I. Van Antwerp 1889 Robert M. Scotten 1891 Charles M. Armstrong 1891 Herman H. Finkle 1891 William M. Bradley 1892 Edward W. Frey 1892 Vera Burridge Baits 1892 Frederick C. Matthaei 1892 Clarence J. Dacey 1892 John Patrick Connors 1892 Albert E. Cobo 1893 John D. Dingell 1894 J. Price Briscoe 1894 Clarence J. McLeod 1895 Vincent P. Dacey 1895 Carl M. Weideman 1898 Anthony J. Wilkowski 1898 John F. Hamilton 1898 Charles Upton Shreve 1898 Leonard A. Jurkiewicz 1899 Edward H. Kennedy, Jr. 1899 George D. O'Brien 1900 Edward J. Jeffries, Jr. 1900 Martin A. Kronk 1900 Joseph C. Roosevelt 1900 Thomas F. Maher 1901 Stanley J. Dombrowski 1901 Frank Couzens 1902 David L. Lindsay 1902 Leo J. Wilkowski 1902 Joseph F. Nagel 1902 Joseph L. Kaminski 1902 Katharine E. Byron 1903 Charles G. Oakman 1903 George G. Sadowski 1903 Richard L. Thomson 1903 Edward J. Walsh 1904 William E. Scotten 1904 Ellen S. Phelan 1905 William Hayward 1906 Harold F. Youngblood 1907 George W. Renchard 1907 Frederick M. Alger, Jr. 1907 Michael J. O'Brien 1907 J. Russell Hughes 1907 Julius C. Pliskow 1907 Stanley F. Rozycki 1908 Alvin Pasco 1908 Albert J. Zak 1909 Robert P. Brown 1909 Charles R. Burrows 1910 Albert Lee 1910 Joseph S. Brzostowski 1910 Harold M. Ryan 1911 G. Mennen Williams 1911 John W. Connolly 1911 Charles N. Youngblood 1911 Stephen J. Stopczynski 1911 Matthew Welsh 1912 Henry T. Gage 1912 John N. Mitchell 1913 John Lesinski, Jr. 1914 Joseph Palmer II 1914 Walter Czarnecki 1914 David J. Trombley 1914 Joseph J. Kowalski 1914 Walter J. Hyso 1915 Francis J. Nowak 1915 James M. Teahen, Jr. 1916 Thomas J. Dowling 1916 Edward H. Jeffries 1916 Frank D. Williams 1916 Edmond Lesinski 1916 Catherine Moore Cushman 1916 Joseph Forbes 1916 William I. Cargo 1917 Henry R. Kozak 1917 Thomas M. Lane 1917 Michael Novak 1917 Warren N. Goemaere 1917 Dorothy Haener 1917 Thomas F. Schweigert 1917 Leonard E. Wood 1917 Stanley C. Novak 1918 Harold Norris 1918 Virginia Barrett 1918 Thomas B. Adams 1919 E. D. O'Brien 1920 Ted Clark 1920 Charles C. Diggs, Jr. 1922 Robert J. Huber 1922 Zolton A. Ferency 1922 Elmer Gregory Kryza 1922 Joseph B. Sullivan 1922 Damon Keith 1922 William A. Boos, Jr. 1922 Robert P. Griffin 1923 Casmer P. Ogonowski 1923 Jean Backus 1923 Ralph A. Liberato 1923 John H. Gillis 1923 Frank J. Kelley 1924 Dorothy Comstock Riley 1924 Rockwell T. Gust, Jr. 1924 Ann E. Donnelly 1924 James Del Rio 1924 Jim Jeffries 1925 Gus Savage 1925 Roman S. Gribbs 1925 Theodore Souris 1925 Jean McKee 1925 Frank V. Wierzbicki 1925 T. John Lesinski 1925 John P. Smeekens 1925 George W. Kuhn 1925 S. James Clarkson 1925 Charles L. Levin 1926 Edward H. McNamara 1926 Joseph G. Savage 1926 James H. Sterrett 1926 O. Roosevelt Diggs 1926 William D. Ford 1927 George Z. Hart 1927 Richard A. Young 1927 Albert J. Titran 1927 Edward L. Douglas 1927 Joyce Symons 1927 Jerome P. Cavanagh 1928 Raymond J. Smit 1928 Alfred A. Sheridan 1928 S. Don Potter 1928 John Conyers, Jr. 1929 Ralph B. Guy, Jr. 1929 Richard D. Kuhn 1929 Thomas E. Brennan 1929 Leonard S. Walton 1929 Don Binkowski 1929 Vincent J. Brennan 1929 Michael J. Kelly 1929 Jim A. Plakas 1929 Nancy E. Dick 1930 Marjorie McGowan 1930 S. Jerome Bronson 1930 Daniel F. Walsh 1930 Sander M. Levin 1931 James E. Wells 1931 Jack H. McDonald 1932 Charles N. Youngblood, Jr. 1932 Larry J. Hopkins 1933 Marvin R. Stempien 1933 Jessie F. Dalman 1933 Richard M. Maher 1933 John F. Markes 1933 Robert Cameron Broomfield 1933 Carl Levin 1934 Norman Krivosha 1934 George N. Bashara, Jr. 1934 John H. Shepherd 1934 Sylvia M. Calabrese 1934 Sonny Bono 1935 Gilbert J. DiNello 1935 Robert G. Hodges 1935 Sarah Goddard Power 1935 Stephen P. Yokich 1935 Bob Moretti 1936 Raymond W. Hood 1936 Jack Faxon 1936 William L. Jenkins 1936 R. Robert Geake 1936 David B. Hermelin 1936 Patricia J. Boyle 1937 Malcolm C. Johnson 1937 Raymond F. Prus 1937 Thomas W. White 1937 William R. Bryant, Jr. 1938 Barbara-Rose Collins 1939 Dan Angel 1939 Tom Hayden 1939 Paul D. Borman 1939 Michael F. Cavanagh 1940 James G. Agee 1940 George W. Mans 1940 Barbara Roberts Mason 1940 James P. Hoffa 1941 James J. Blanchard 1942 Dennis W. Archer 1942 William Morse 1942 William B. Fitzgerald 1942 Doug Ross 1942 G. Scott Romney c.1942 Jim Dunn 1943 Ernest C. Fackler 1943 Alixandra P. Summit 1943 Thomas Guastello 1943 Michael H. Conlin 1943 Thomas W. Jones 1944 Marianne O. Battani 1944 David E. Bonior 1945 Carolyn C. Kilpatrick 1945 Art Miller, Jr. 1946 Philip C. Bellfy 1946 Virgil C. Smith, Jr. 1947 David A. Plawecki 1947 W. Mitt Romney 1947 Bruce D. Black 1947 Patricia A. Gibbons 1947 Dennis M. Hertel 1948 John F. Kelly 1949 Brian Palmer 1949 Joe Young, Jr. 1950 Dennis Olshove 1950 Constance J. Catalfio 1951 Laura M. Toy 1951 Beverly Kilmer 1951 Robert A. Ficano 1952 Conrad L. Mallett, Jr. 1953 Candice S. Miller 1954 Barbara B. Goushaw 1954 Gary Woronchak 1955 Keith B. Stallworth 1956 Hansen Clarke 1957 Frank Accavitti, Jr. 1957 Amanda L. Howe 1959 Bill Prady 1960 Andrew C. Richner 1961 Brenda L. Lawrence c.1961 Scott A. Boman 1962 Derrick F. Hale 1963 Keith Ellison 1963 John Ferguson, Jr. 1970 Kwame M. Kilpatrick 1970 Bill McConico 1973
• Ecorse: Ignatius J. Salliotte 1877
• Flat Rock: Henry H. Woodruff 1841 Fred C. Fischer 1879
• Greenfield Township (now part of Detroit): John Strong, Jr. 1830 Thomas H. Brown 1860 George A. Dondero 1883
• Grosse Pointe: John M. Burns c.1924
• Grosse Pointe Farms: Henry A. Pominville 1933
• Grosse Pointe Park: James J. Damman 1933
• Hamtramck: Lawrence W. Snell 1870 Walter P. Cynar 1919 Edward K. Michalski 1920 John T. Kelsey 1921 Ted Mrozowski 1921 Lucien N. Nedzi 1925 Chester Wozniak 1927 Raymond W. Krolikowski 1928 Harold Hood 1931 Thaddeus C. Stopczynski 1940
• Highland Park: William R. Beasley 1919 Dan Miller 1942 Susan Grimes Munsell 1951 Tom Hickey 1955
• Lincoln Park: Eric B. Gordon 1970
• Livonia: Charles Smith 1839 William T. McGraw 1868 Thaddeus G. McCotter 1965
• Northville: Edward Hildreth Ryder 1873 Don Carroll Bliss 1897
• Plymouth: Paul W. Voorhies 1875 Edward Gayde 1878 Kenneth G. Bartlett 1906
• Plymouth Township: Cassius R. Benton 1862
• Redford Township (part now in Detroit): D. Neil Reid 1900
• Springwells (now part of Detroit): John S. Haggerty 1866
• Trenton: Joseph M. Lenard 1962
• Wayne: Edward F. Fisher 1870
• Wyandotte: Frank Murphy 1878 Charles H. Block 1885 Ari H. Woodruff 1888 Frederick J. Gartner, Jr. 1906 Victor Targonski 1914 Edward E. Mahalak 1921 James R. DeSana 1930 David A. Nagy 1940 John C. Stewart 1949 Gloria Schermesser 1956
• Near Ypsilanti: John W. Moon 1836
• See also Mich. birthplaces not assigned to counties.

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