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Michigan Democratic Party offices

Index of Politicians by Party Office Held

State Party Officers:

• Democratic state chairs
• Democratic state vice-chairs
• Members of Democratic National Committee
• Democratic state party secretaries
• Democratic state party treasurers
• Democratic state party corresponding secretaries
• Democratic state party officers at large
• Members of Democratic State Central Committee

Michigan Delegates to Democratic National Conventions: very incomplete!

• 1852: Baltimore, Md.
• 1856: Cincinnati, Ohio
• 1860: Charleston, S.C. and Baltimore, Md.
• 1864: Chicago, Ill.
• 1876: St. Louis, Mo.
• 1884: Chicago, Ill.
• 1892: Chicago, Ill.
• 1896: Chicago, Ill.
• 1900: Kansas City, Mo.
• 1904: St. Louis, Mo.
• 1912: Baltimore, Md.
• 1916: St. Louis, Mo.
• 1920: San Francisco, Calif.
• 1924: New York, N.Y.
• 1928: Houston, Tex.
• 1932: Chicago, Ill.
• 1936: Philadelphia, Pa.
• 1940: Chicago, Ill.
• 1944: Chicago, Ill.
• 1948: Philadelphia, Pa.
• 1952: Chicago, Ill.
• 1956: Chicago, Ill.
• 1960: Los Angeles, Calif.
• 1964: Atlantic City, N.J.
• 1968: Chicago, Ill.
• 1972: Miami Beach, Fla.
• 1976: New York, N.Y.
• 1980: New York, N.Y.
• 1984: San Francisco, Calif.
• 1988: Atlanta, Ga.
• 1992: New York, N.Y.
• 1996: Chicago, Ill.
• 2000: Los Angeles, Calif.
• 2004: Boston, Mass.

Michigan Democratic Party County Chairs: very incomplete!

Alcona - Alger - Allegan - Alpena - Antrim - Arenac - Barry - Bay - Benzie - Berrien - Branch - Calhoun - Cass - Charlevoix - Cheboygan - Chippewa - Clare - Clinton - Crawford - Delta - Dickinson - Eaton - Emmet - Genesee - Gladwin - Gogebic - Grand Traverse - Gratiot - Hillsdale - Houghton - Huron - Ingham - Ionia - Iosco - Iron - Isabella - Jackson - Kalamazoo - Kalkaska - Kent - Keweenaw - Lake - Lapeer - Leelanau - Lenawee - Livingston - Luce - Mackinac - Macomb - Manistee - Marquette - Mason - Mecosta - Menominee - Midland - Missaukee - Monroe - Montcalm - Montmorency - Muskegon - Newaygo - Oakland - Oceana - Ogemaw - Ontonagon - Osceola - Oscoda - Otsego - Ottawa - Presque Isle - Roscommon - Saginaw - SAINT Clair - SAINT Joseph - Sanilac - Schoolcraft - Shiawassee - Tuscola - Van Buren - Washtenaw - Wayne - Wexford

Democratic state chairs, 1876-2006 (Incomplete!)

Donald M. Dickinson 1876 Daniel J. Campau 1899-1900 Thomas E. Barkworth 1903-05 Edwin O. Wood 1904 John T. Winship 1907 Edmund C. Shields 1909-17 Albert E. Stevenson 1917 Thad B. Preston 1919 William A. Comstock 1920-24 Horatio J. Abbott 1925-29 Henry H. Heimann 1929-31 W. Alfred Debo 1931-35 Elmer B. O'Hara 1935-36 Edward J. Fry 1937-39 Charles S. Porritt 1939 Earnest C. Brooks 1943-44 Walter C. Averill, Jr. 1944-47 John R. Franco 1947-49 Hicks G. Griffiths 1949-50 Neil Staebler 1950-61 John J. Collins 1961-63 Zolton A. Ferency 1963-68 Sander M. Levin 1968-69 James M. McNeely 1969-73 Morley A. Winograd 1973-79 Olivia Maynard 1979-83 Richard N. Wiener 1983-89 F. Thomas Lewand 1989-91 Gary G. Corbin 1991-95 Mark Brewer 1998- Melvin Hollowell 2003-

Democratic state vice-chairs, 1929-79 (Incomplete!)

Catherine D. Doran 1929 Minerva Olson 1933 Mrs. James H. McDonald 1937 Elizabeth L. Belen 1939 Violet LaVergne Patterson 1947-48 Margaret Cotsikas 1949 Adelaide J. Hart 1951-61 Adelaide J. Hart 1967 Kenneth N. Hylton 1969-73 Patti Knox 1969 Olivia Maynard 1973-79 Clyde Cleveland 1977-79

Members of Democratic National Committee, 1880-2004 (Incomplete!)

Donald M. Dickinson 1880-85 Edwin O. Wood 1908-16 Etta C. Boltwood 1920 William F. Connolly 1920 William A. Comstock 1924-30 Evelyn S. Mershon 1929 Horatio J. Abbott 1933-36 Clara Van Auken 1936-47 Edmund C. Shields 1937-44 E. Cyril Bevan 1944-47 George S. Fitzgerald 1949-53 Minnie M. Schwinger 1949-53 Ernest J. Lacey 1953-57 Margaret Price 1954-57 Thomas H. E. Quimby 1957-61 Mildred Jeffrey 1961-69 John B. Swainson 1963 Neil Staebler 1963-67 Billie S. Farnum 1967-68 Coleman A. Young 1969-81 Neil Staebler 1972-75 Sam Fishman 1973-81 Helen M. Irving 1973-77 William Marshall 1973-81 Shirley Robinson 1973 Stuart E. Hertzberg 1975-81 Alex Ott 1977-81 Harold Hayden 1979 Kim Moran 1979 Shirley Robinson Hall 1979 Helen R. Root 1979 Marc Stepp 1979 Arthenia Abbott 2004 Lu Battaglieri 2004 Mark Brewer 2004 M. Elizabeth Bunn 2004 Debbie Dingell 2004 Joel I. Ferguson 2004 Melvin Hollowell 2004 Kwame M. Kilpatrick 2004 Joyce Lalonde 2004 P. Christina Montague 2004 Erin Parsons-Wright 2004 Jeffrey Radjewski 2004 Virgie M. Rollins 2004 Richard Shoemaker 2004 Jim Sype 2004 Richard N. Wiener 2004

Democratic state party secretaries, 1899-1969 (Incomplete!)

Charles S. Hampton 1899 A. R. Canfield 1907-19 Don W. Canfield 1933 Andrew J. Belanger 1937 Frank M. Cordero 1939 Peter V. Healy 1947-49 Helen Salamon 1957 Alma F. Polk 1961 Olivia Maynard 1969

Democratic state party treasurers, 1899-1979 (Incomplete!)

George William Moore 1899 Harris E. Thomas 1915 John J. Campbell 1917-19 Byron L. Ballard 1937 William Walz 1939 Albert J. Tavarozzi 1947 Michael Carland 1949 Orin K. Grettenberger 1957 Charles H. Rosetta 1961 Stuart E. Hertzberg 1969-73 Thomas A. Roach 1977-79

Democratic state party corresponding secretaries, 1969 (Incomplete!)

Nancy A. Waters 1969

Democratic state party officers at large, 1969 (Incomplete!)

James A. Harrison 1969 Zeline Richard 1969

Members of Democratic State Central Committee, 1899-2003 (Incomplete!)

• Blank district: Stanley Nowak 1940 Charles P. Nugent 1940-44 Robert S. Feldman 1948-56 Raymond F. Clevenger 1958-60 Robert B. Abbott 1965-67 John O. Knappmann 1996-
• 1st District: George William Moore 1899 William E. Thompson 1899 Edwin Henderson 1907 George F. Monaghan 1907 James A. Murtha 1915-19 William P. Scullin 1915-19 William M. Donnelly 1927 William J. Nagel 1927 Geraldine Sheehan 1927 Miriam Hewlett 1929 Leo J. Moriarty 1929 George G. Sadowski 1929 Frank J. Chamski 1933 Frank J. Kolodziejski 1933 Lillian Givens 1937 John J. Kozaren 1937 William E. Pine 1937 Sophie M. Richards 1937-39 Selma Bell 1939 Barney Klos 1939 Anthony J. Wilkowski 1939 Ermenia Amoni 1947-49 Jeanetta Welch Brown 1947 Nick Green Grabowski 1947-51 Theodore J. Wilk 1947 Cora Ransom Lockhart 1949-51 Edward K. Michalski 1949-51 Anna J. Pastuszka 1951 Stephen J. Stopczynski 1959-61 Helen Butler 1961 Alphonso R. Harper 1961 Annie Hughes 1961 Vivian Allison 1969 Willie L. Baxter 1969 Walter Elliott 1969-77 Gladys A. Minnis 1969 Rosie Board 1973-77 Sarah Foley 1973 George B. Gore 1973-77 Mildred A. Kyles 1973-77 Thelma Livingston 1973 Conrad Mallett 1973-77 Sue Marx 1973 Henrietta Robinson 1973 Jimmy Smith 1973 Myzell Sowell 1973 Al Hyde 1977 Dauris G. Jackson 1977 Quincy Kelly 1977 Martha G. Scott 1977 Sam Tooson 1977
• 2nd District: Eber L. Peek 1899 James B. Thorn 1899 David L. Treat 1907 A. J. Wier 1907 Horatio J. Abbott 1915 John B. Haynes 1915 Edward Frensdorf 1917-19 John W. Miner 1917-19 Florence S. Babbitt 1919 Estella Downing 1927 Edward Frensdorf 1927 John W. Miner 1927 Elizabeth Jackel 1929 Jacob Martin 1929 Leonard Sauer 1929 F. E. N. Thatcher 1929-33 Victor Bennet 1937 Edith Navarre 1937 William O'Riley 1937 Marie Wilds 1937 Mrs. Donald Black 1939 Angelo Merino 1939 Mrs. William O'Riley 1939 Albert J. Parker 1939 Ellen Black 1947 Leo Boudinet 1947 George V. Stoll 1947 Mrs. Roger Wyatt 1947 James T. Bolan 1949 Virginia Butler 1949 Mrs. Roy Liedel 1949 Harold Marsh 1949 James Andrews 1951 Viola B. Blackenburg 1961 Raymond Fowlks 1961 Eugene F. Harbaugh 1961 Mrs. Joseph R. Stanifer 1961 Jean Ledwith King 1967 Helen Bird 1969 Margaret Cotter 1969 Fermon Emerson 1969 Vanzetti M. Hamilton 1969 Richard W. Bailey 1973 Marguerite Eaglin 1973 Paul Y. Kadish 1973 Wallace Long 1973 Richard McGlinn 1973 Arlene Stokes 1973 Patricia Whitton 1973-79 Robert D. Alexander 1977-79 David Bernstein 1977-79 Sidney Diamond 1977-79 Ethel M. Howard 1977-79 Greg Keys 1977 Jean Ledwith King 1977-79 Anne Porier 1979
• 3rd District: John H. Burke 1899 Samuel Robinson 1899 Edward Austin 1907 C. A. Blackman 1907 James B. Balch 1915 John F. Fitzsimmons 1915 John W. Bailey 1917-19 Michael N. Kennedy 1917-19 Agnes E. Spencer 1919 James B. Balch 1927 Daisy B. Galloway 1927 Leroy Palmer 1927 Lyle Creel 1937 John B. Strange 1937 Elizabeth D. Todd 1937 Dagmar C. Young 1937-39 Louis Kingscott 1939 Alfonso A. Magnotta 1939 Mrs. Fred Murray 1939 Victor E. Bucknell 1944-49 Hazel Ely 1947 Virginia Ingram 1947 Alfonso A. Magnotta 1947 Thomas Giddings 1949 Mrs. Elzora Lyons 1949 Mrs. George D. Schermerhorn 1949 Kathleen Flynn 1961 Alberta Gochanour 1961 Richard L. Hord 1961 John Panchuk 1961 Ruthanne Brown 1969 Lawrence Harboldt 1969 Mary Linderman 1969 W. James Orr 1969 Nyle L. Katz 1973 Frank Lindsley 1973 William McCandliss 1973 Joyce Miller 1973 Sarah Renstrom 1973 Helen R. Root 1973 Lana L. Boldi 1977 Alfred Burch 1977 Glenn Freeman 1977 Sandra Pattok 1977 Ann Shafer 1977 John A. Whitman 1977
• 4th District: Nathan W. Drake 1899 Thomas A. Walker 1899 Thomas J. Cavanaugh 1907-19 Thomas M. Cook 1907 John R. Bishop 1915-17 Maude Glasner 1919 James W. Henry 1919 Dan J. Gerow 1932-39 Bernice Breece 1937 Lydia Fry 1937 Alvin O. Knaak 1937-39 Virginia Baird 1939 Lucille Schafer 1939-49 Dan J. Gerow 1947-49 Marguerite R. Moore 1947 Ben Rosenberg 1947 Frieda Pinyard 1949 Walter Robbins 1949 Georgia Canonie 1961 Don L. Martin 1961 Ethel Slingland 1961 Joseph A. Vega 1961 David A. Blok 1969 Dorothy Grabemeyer 1969 Dolores Lyons 1969 Judd Spray 1969 E. Lee Feller 1973 Richard Grabemeyer 1973 Mary Ann Marker 1973 Donna O'Donnohue 1973 Linda L. Seegert 1973
• 5th District: Henry F. McCormick 1899 J. D. Welch 1899 Thomas A. Carten 1907 George P. Hummer 1907-15 William Loutit 1915 Lionel Heap 1917 George Hollway 1917 Henry Bouwens 1919 Frank C. Jarvis 1919 Etta M. Smith 1919 Earnest C. Brooks 1937 Hattie Bushewicz 1937 John H. Haven 1937 Mrs. Shelby B. Schurtz 1937 Marie Alvord 1947 Roy A. Hierholzer 1947-49 Charles A. Hilton 1947 Grace Loucks 1947-49 William Carpenter 1949 Anne Johnson 1949 Mildred Applegate 1961 Malcolm L. Ferguson 1961 Thelma K. Patterson 1961 Floyd Stevens 1961 Walter Conway 1969 Thelma K. Patterson 1969 William G. Reamon 1969 Kathleen Stout 1969 Clarence Coleman 1973 Robert D. Fahey 1973 Elizabeth Hoffman 1973 Dorothy Newman 1973 Frances Parks 1973 Gary Schenck 1973
• 6th District: Peter E. Park 1899 Frank G. Rounsville 1899 Alva M. Cummins 1907 Benjamin R. Hoyt 1907 James H. Lynch 1915-19 Lawrence Price 1915 Clinton Roberts 1917-19 Ida M. Person 1919 Genevieve Davey 1937 Mrs. Parker Haynor 1937 Martin J. Lavan 1937 Nicholas Murphy 1937 Verna H. Barkey 1947-49 Leo J. Doyle 1947 Mary McNamara 1947-49 Archie A. Perry 1947 Martin J. Lavan 1949 Jacob M. Waldo 1949 Hazel Bohnsack 1957 Robert A. Frost 1957-61 Charles Hayes 1957 Kathryn Nye 1957 Mrs. Raymond A. Cook, Jr. 1961 Lloyd LaChapelle 1961 Esther B. Waite 1961 Harold J. Spaeth 1967-69 Doreen Duzenbury 1969 Mary Murdock 1969 James H. Ramey 1969 Charles O. Conrad 1973 Wayne Hawes 1973 Claude Hersh 1973 Anne Hinckley 1973 Leslie Lokken 1973 Vivian Preston 1973 James H. Ramey 1973 Gladys Beckwith 1977 Nate Darnell 1977 Albert L. Dutzy 1977 Bert D. Lee 1977-79 Sheila Moles 1977 Earle H. Stevenson 1977-79 Diane Welmers 1977 Linda Bottomley 1979 Sherry L. Finkbeiner 1979 Louis Khon 1979 Cyril A. McGuire 1979 Mary E. Somers 1979 Kay Urbany 1979
• 7th District: Henry Schlegel 1899 Charles Wellman 1899 J. P. Egglestone 1907 Henry F. Marx 1907 Varnum J. Bowers 1915 Albert E. Stevenson 1915 William J. McCarren 1917-19 John S. Smith 1917-19 Julia L. Haller 1919 Florence Carey 1937 Bertha Clabuesch 1937 Patrick H. Kane 1937 J. V. Messmore 1937 Geraldine Holdship 1947 Edward T. Kane 1947-48 Florence Knapp 1947 Earl J. Tallman 1947 George A. Moore 1949-51 Lucille E. Soutar 1949-51 Esther M. Whetzel 1949 Frank J. Zagaiski 1949-50 Ethel A. LaFortune 1951 William Woolcott 1951 Lillian Barrett 1961 William R. Francisco 1961 Roy N. Gruenburg 1961 Annabelle Palms 1961 Leroy Clark 1973 Tom Donnellan 1973 Elaine Merriman 1973 Alma Nevels 1973 Alex Ott 1973 Grace Voorheis 1973
• 8th District: J. W. Messner 1899 Clark D. Smith 1899 J. Earle Brown 1907-15 John T. Winship 1907 John A. Cimmerer 1915 Emmet L. Beach 1917 Thad B. Preston 1917-19 Mary C. Bahlke 1919 Arthur W. Ganschow 1919 Louise Denn 1937 Harvey E. Kidder 1937 Donna Nash 1937 William A. Seegmiller 1937 Margaret Cotsikas 1947 Nellie Mottashed 1947 John P. Murphy, Jr. 1947-49 Mary Bricker 1949 Doris M. Flint 1949 Claude B. Root 1949 Jerome T. Hart 1959-63 Gertrude B. Gemuend 1961 June Ormsby 1961 Ralph L. Smith 1961
• 9th District: Hiram J. Hoyt 1899 Levi J. Law 1899 Herman R. O'Connor 1907 C. A. Waal 1907 Cornelius Gerber 1915-19 Charles E. Schewe 1915-19 Hattie B. VanZalingen 1919 Mrs. Charles Benson 1937 Ella J. Duff 1937 A. Spaulding Friedrich 1937 Harry Sawyer 1937 Charles H. Miltner 1947 Arnold C. Misteli 1947 Maude V. Pawlicki 1947-49 Alma V. Schow 1947 Helen J. Johnson 1949 John Sutton 1949 Leah L. Cooper 1961 Sylvester Flarity 1961 James G. O'Callaghan 1961 Lola Peckham 1961
• 10th District: Caspar Alpern 1899 George Washington 1899 John E. Kinnane 1907 S. Wilhartz 1907 Henry Kinney 1915 Judson E. Richardson 1915-19 John E. Kinnane 1917-19 Minerva S. Miller 1919 Mrs. Bernard Frazik 1937 Theodore K. Hine 1937 Clarence Johnson 1937 Lavina M. Masselink 1937 Mrs. A. Bielowski 1947 Charles Kindermann 1947 Connor D. Smith 1947 Irene Tepper 1947 Edward J. Daugherty 1949 John Lynch 1949 Virginia Moore 1949 Thelma Whitney 1949 Edwin Bukowski 1961 Helen M. Kuhn 1961 Betty Moskowitz 1961 Bernard A. O'Hora 1961
• 11th District: Charles M. Brown 1899 Hiram B. Hudson 1899 John T. Matthews 1907 D. Scott Partridge 1907 William A. Comstock 1915 William P. Preston 1915 John J. Cleary 1917 R. F. Sloan 1917 Marie B. Comstock 1919 William L. McManus, Jr. 1919 J. H. Moher 1919 Marion T. Berg 1937 Gerald Cleary 1937 Mrs. Ralph Dean 1937 Michael Ryan 1937 Vernie Dean 1947 Thurman B. Doyle 1947 Violet LaVergne Patterson 1947 Daniel S. Way, Jr. 1947-49 Warren Cleary 1949 Catherine Holbin 1949 Mrs. K. Mathisen 1949 Mary C. Farrell 1961 Beatrice Kahan 1961 Milton E. Scherer 1961 A. M. Schneider 1961
• 12th District: Michael F. McDonald 1899 Daniel McVichie 1899 William P. Preston 1907 Edward J. Ryan 1907 James B. Byers 1915 John H. Lewis 1915 James F. Corcoran 1917-19 William E. Madigan 1917-19 Joseph Ebli 1937 Mrs. John Harrington 1937-39 John D. Voelker 1937-39 Gertrude Welton 1937 Mrs. Joseph Ebli 1939 Frederick Kappler 1939 Morgan Edwardsen 1947 Louise Libby 1947-49 Karl E. Mikko 1947 Mrs. William Montgomery 1947 Ruth Dundon 1949 Floyd Hill 1949 Leonard J. McManman 1949 Ivan E. Brown 1961 Dorothy M. Jacobs 1961 Gladys McNamara 1961
• 13th District: Frank D. Eaman 1915-17 Edwin Henderson 1915-19 Charles H. Bryan 1919 Don W. Canfield 1937 Geraldine Monaghan 1937-39 John D. O'Connell 1937-39 Florence Wharrie 1937 Patrick S. Nertney 1939 Dorothy Schwarzenzer 1939 Mabel Flack 1947 Daniel P. O'Brien 1947-49 Ben Probe 1947 Nellie Riley 1947-49 Donald P. Frazer 1949 Alma McMahan 1949 M. Kelly Fritz 1961 Dorothy D. Grundstein 1961 Leola Lange 1961 John K. McDaniel 1961
• 14th District: Stephen M. Connor 1937 Charles A. DeLisle 1937 Emma B. Trombley 1937-39 Mary E. White 1937 Carl W. Bischoff 1939 Louis J. Labudie 1939 Amelia Carroll 1947 Lois D. Lusk 1947-49 Samuel Marroso 1947 Thomas Doherty 1949 Bert F. Donlin 1949 Emma Walsh 1949 Robert G. Hodges 1959-61 Anne May Kleiner 1961 Prince E. Moon 1961 Eileen D. Zielesch 1961
• 15th District: Shy Baird 1937-39 William E. Dowling 1937-39 William C. Ryan 1937-39 Geraldine Sheehan 1937 Catherine D. Doran 1939 Edith Barry 1947 Geneva Cassey 1947 John D. Hayes 1947 Peter V. Healy 1947 Catherine D. Doran 1949 Joseph Ferris 1949 Charles McCauley 1949 Ivy Strachan 1949 Dolores L. Engel 1957 Marguerite M. Mason 1957-61 John J. Penczak 1957 Edward Rizner 1957-61 Roslyn D. Kane 1961 Leroy Kirton 1961
• 16th District: Helena Barc 1937-39 John C. Cahalan, Jr. 1937-39 James Guinan 1937 Elizabeth Stellwagon 1937-39 Hugh A. Merron 1939 Ard Kaloosdian 1947-61 Stella Lecznar 1947-49 Antoinette B. Stanis 1947-49 Albert J. Tavarozzi 1947 Steven Lorenz 1949 Erna Fitzpatrick 1956-57 Mrs. Kornela Sess 1957 Eugene Wilson 1957 Iris M. Becker 1961 Roy Davis 1961 Frances Petross 1961
• 17th District: Ella Craft 1937-39 Alfred Gale 1937-39 Albert H. Hall 1937 Mollie Jewell 1937-39 Fred Ellsasser 1939 Harrison F. Biggers 1947 Willis M. Brewer 1947 Margery Gray 1947 Martha W. Griffiths 1947 Donald E. Adams 1949 Michael F. Lacey 1949 Margaret Smith 1949 Helen Vickery 1949 Joan Bleich 1957 Frank Galia 1957 Mildred Jeffrey 1957-61 Paul Silver 1957-61 John Furmanski 1961 Ione M. Reichel 1961
• 18th District: Leonard D. Bennett 1957 Bob Boyer 1957 Harriett Phillips 1957 Leona Simmons 1957 Barbara J. Brinkman 1961 Otis Lawrence 1961 William A. O'Brien, Jr. 1961 Rosemary Shpiece 1961 John Dewan 1979 Riley Harris 1979 Mike Kokotovich 1979 Shirley Leopold 1979 Marie Malotke 1979 Gaylene McDonald 1979 Kay Penner 1979 Bernice Stomber 1979
• 19th District: Carole Kammer 1979 Gene Kuthy 1979 Eileen Marz 1979 Harry M. Moss 1979 Gail A. Nolin 1979 James Ramey 1979 William Ward 1979

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