Members of Michigan State Board of Education, 1849-2012
(May be incomplete!)
Samuel
Newberry 1849-50
Isaac
E. Crary 1850-54
Chauncey
Joslin 1851-54
Hiram
L. Miller 1854-57
John
R. Kellogg 1855-60
George
Willard 1857-62
Witter
J. Baxter 1857-76
Edwin
Willits 1861-72
Edward
Dorsch 1873-78
Witter
J. Baxter 1877-81
Bela
W. Jenks 1881-88
Samuel
S. Babcock 1887-92
E.
Finley Johnson 1898-1901
Perry
F. Powers 1899-1900
Frederick
A. Platt 1899-1901
Luther
L. Wright 1901-06
Patrick
H. Kelley 1901-05
William
J. McKone 1906-15
Dexter
M. Ferry, Jr. 1906-13
William
A. Cotton 1907-11
Thomas
W. Nadal 1911-17
Frank
Cody 1914-43
Fred
A. Jeffers 1915-33
Thomas
E. Johnson 1917-19
Allen
M. Freeland 1919-35
Mary
F. Farnsworth 1939-45
Stephen
S. Nisbet 1943-61
Louisa
Durham Mohr 1945-53
Walter
F. Gries 1953-59
Frank
Hartman 1961-64
James
F. O'Neil 1963-64
Robert
P. Briggs 1964-68
Thomas
J. Brennan 1965-72
Leon
Fill 1965-66
Marilyn
Jean Kelly 1965-76
Peter
Oppewall 1965-70
Leroy
G. Augenstein 1967-69
James
F. O'Neil 1967-74
M.
Gorton Riethmiller 1969-76
Annetta
Miller 1971-94
Barbara
Dumouchelle 1972-86
William
A. Sederberg 1973-75
Barbara
Roberts Mason 1975-98
Paul
B. Henry 1975-78
Gumecindo
Salas 1977-84
Norman
O. Stockmeyer 1981-88
Carroll
M. Hutton 1983-88
Cherry
H. Jacobus 1985-92
Gumecindo
Salas 1987-94
Barbara
Dumouchelle 1989-92
Katherine
J. DeGrow 1992-96
Kathleen
Straus 1993-
W.
Clark Durant 1995-99
Marianne
Y. McGuire 1997-
Sharon
L. Gire 1999-
Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)
1850 Mar 29:
Isaac
E. Crary, appointed.
1854 May 8:
Isaac
E. Crary, died in office.
1854 Nov 7:
Hiram
L. Miller, appointed.
1857 Jul 15:
Hiram
L. Miller, resigned.
1857 Jul 21:
Witter
J. Baxter, appointed.
1876 Oct 26:
Witter
J. Baxter, resigned.
1881 Apr 6:
Witter
J. Baxter, resigned.
1881 Apr 21:
Bela
W. Jenks, appointed.
1882 Nov 7:
Bela
W. Jenks, elected.
1886:
Orren
E. Downing (Prohibition), defeated.
1894:
Frederick
H. Olmstead, defeated;
Michael
Devereaux (Dem), defeated.
1898 May 18:
E.
Finley Johnson, appointed.
1898 Nov 8:
Frederick
A. Platt (Rep), elected.
1901:
E.
Finley Johnson, resigned;
Frederick
A. Platt, resigned;
Luther
L. Wright, appointed.
1901 Apr 10:
Patrick
H. Kelley, appointed.
1902:
Luther
L. Wright (Rep), elected;
Charles
F. Field (Dem), defeated.
1904:
Luther
L. Wright, elected.
1905:
Patrick
H. Kelley, resigned.
1905 Apr 3:
William
J. McKone (Rep), elected;
James
G. Henley (Dem), defeated;
Charles
A. Salyer (Prohibition), defeated;
Alben
E. Higgins, defeated.
1906 Jan 11:
Dexter
M. Ferry, Jr., appointed.
1906 Nov 6:
Dexter
M. Ferry, Jr. (Rep), elected;
James
E. Sullivan (Dem), defeated;
George
A. Parmenter (Prohibition), defeated;
J.
Eugene Andrews (Socialist), defeated;
Henry
Ulbricht (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1907 Jan 8:
William
A. Cotton, appointed.
1909 Apr 5:
William
J. McKone (Rep), elected;
Henry
Kremers (Dem), defeated;
Leroy
H. White (Prohibition), defeated;
Alexander
M. Stirton (Socialist), defeated.
1911:
William
A. Cotton, resigned.
1911 Feb 2:
Thomas
W. Nadal, appointed.
1911 Apr 3:
Thomas
W. Nadal (Rep), elected;
James
A. King (Dem), defeated;
Nelly
Knott (Socialist), defeated;
Wesley
C. Richards, defeated.
1915 Apr 5:
Fred
A. Jeffers (Rep), elected;
Paul
Van Deinse (Dem), defeated;
William
S. Leavenworth (Progressive), defeated;
Joseph
M. Carrier (Socialist), defeated;
Charles
A. Salyer (Prohibition), defeated.
1917 Apr 2:
E.
K. Mohr (Prohibition), defeated.
1919 Apr 23:
Allen
M. Freeland, appointed.
1923 Apr 2:
Allen
M. Freeland (Rep), elected;
Mary
L. Hinsdale (Dem), defeated;
Martha
J. McColl (Prohibition), defeated.
1927 Apr 4:
Fred
A. Jeffers (Rep), elected;
Robert
C. Young (Dem), defeated;
Lillian
B. Locker (Prohibition), defeated;
Arnold
Ziegler (Workers), defeated.
1929 Apr 1:
Allen
M. Freeland (Rep), elected;
Benjamin
H. Halstead (Dem), defeated;
Ida
S. Wilson (Socialist), defeated;
Charles
S. Rennells (Prohibition), defeated.
1931 Apr 6:
Frank
Cody (Rep), elected;
John
C. Lehr (Dem), defeated;
Axel
O. Londal (Socialist), defeated.
1933 Apr 3:
Edna
C. Wilson (Dem), elected;
Fred
A. Jeffers (Rep), defeated;
Chester
Graham (Socialist), defeated;
Edith
R. Luttenbacher (Prohibition), defeated.
1935 Apr 1:
Wynand
Wichers (Rep), elected;
William
R. Booker (Dem), defeated;
Walter
H. Allmendinger (Socialist), defeated;
H.
J. Evje (Farmer-Labor), defeated;
Ray
T. Fuller (Commonwealth), defeated;
Edith
M. Gardthausen (American), defeated.
1939 Apr 3:
Mary
F. Farnsworth (Rep), elected;
Edna
C. Wilson (Dem), defeated;
Carl
Johnson (Socialist), defeated;
Harry
Schwarzentraub (Commonwealth), defeated.
1941 Apr 7:
Wynand
Wichers (Rep), elected;
Frances
Comfort (Dem), defeated;
William
E. Heslop (Prohibition), defeated.
1943:
Frank
Cody, resigned.
1943 Jan 2:
Stephen
S. Nisbet, appointed.
1943 Apr 5:
Stephen
S. Nisbet (Rep), elected;
Bernard
T. Foley (Dem), defeated;
Clarence
H. Snyder (Prohibition), defeated.
1945 Apr 2:
Charles
G. Burns (Rep), elected;
Carl
O. Smith (Dem), defeated.
1945 Sep 24:
Wynand
Wichers, resigned.
1945 Sep 26:
Louisa
I. Durham, appointed.
1947 Apr 7:
Louisa
I. Durham (Rep), elected;
Victor
Targonski (Dem), defeated;
Oscar
C. Griswold (Prohibition), defeated.
1949 Apr 4:
Stephen
S. Nisbet (Rep), elected;
James
T. Bolan (Dem), defeated;
Devera
Stocker (Progressive), defeated;
Oscar
C. Griswold (Prohibition), defeated.
1951 Apr 2:
Charles
G. Burns (Rep), elected;
Louis
J. McGuinness (Dem), defeated;
LeRoy
M. Lowell (Prohibition), defeated;
Ruth
St. Aubin (Progressive), defeated;
Alice
Pollak (Socialist Workers), defeated;
James
C. Horvath (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1953 Apr 6:
Walter
F. Gries (Rep), elected;
Freda
C. Parmelee (Dem), defeated;
Otho
Jennings (Prohibition), defeated;
Albert
Mills (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1955 Apr 4:
Stephen
S. Nisbet (Rep), elected;
John
M. Veale (Dem), defeated;
Otho
Jennings (Prohibition), defeated;
Theos
A. Grove (Socialist Labor), defeated;
Robert
Himmel, Jr. (Socialist Workers), defeated.
1957 Apr 1:
Chris
H. Magnusson (Dem), elected;
George
W. Dean (Rep), defeated;
Otho
Jennings (Prohibition), defeated.
1959 Apr 6:
Cornelia
A. Robinson (Dem), elected;
Charles
G. Burns (Rep), defeated;
James
C. Horvath (Socialist Labor), defeated;
Oscar
C. Griswold (Prohibition), defeated.
1961 Apr 3:
Frank
Hartman (Dem), elected;
Charles
Rogers (Rep), defeated;
Larry
Dolinski (Socialist Workers), defeated;
Oscar
C. Griswold (Prohibition), defeated;
Edna
A. Conklin (Independent American), defeated.
1963 Apr 1:
James
F. O'Neil (Rep), elected;
Gerald
Tuchow (Dem), defeated;
James
C. Horvath (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1964 Nov 3:
Donald
M. D. Thurber (Dem), elected;
Leon
Fill (Dem), elected;
Karla
Parker (Rep), defeated;
Ellen
M. Solomonson (Rep), defeated;
Margaret
Willis (Freedom Now), defeated;
Henry
L. Hill (Freedom Now), defeated.
1964 Nov 3:
Marilyn
Jean Kelly (Dem), elected;
Carmen
L. DelliQuadri (Dem), elected;
Joyce
Hatton (Rep), defeated;
Bourke
W. Lodewyk (Rep), defeated;
Helen
Kelly (Freedom Now), defeated;
Clara
Maravin (Freedom Now), defeated.
1964 Nov 3:
Thomas
J. Brennan (Dem), elected;
Peter
Oppewall (Dem), elected;
Robert
P. Briggs (Rep), defeated;
John
C. Kreger (Rep), defeated;
Mattie
R. Mays (Freedom Now), defeated;
Constance
Diane Molette (Freedom Now), defeated.
1964 Nov 3:
Edwin
L. Novak (Dem), elected;
Charles
E. Morton (Dem), elected;
Alvin
M. Bentley (Rep), defeated;
James
F. O'Neil (Rep), defeated;
John
R. Thomas (Freedom Now), defeated;
Ella
Mae Perryman (Freedom Now), defeated.
1964 Nov 10:
Robert
P. Briggs, appointed.
1966 Nov 8:
James
F. O'Neil (Rep), elected;
Leroy
G. Augenstein (Rep), elected;
Donald
M. D. Thurber (Dem), defeated;
Leon
Fill (Dem), defeated;
Frank
Girard (Socialist Labor), defeated;
Warren
Carlen (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1968 Nov 5:
Marilyn
Jean Kelly (Dem), elected;
Michael
J. Deeb (Dem), elected;
James
W. TenBrink (Rep), defeated;
Barbara
Dumouchelle (Rep), defeated;
Ellen
Robinson (Socialist Workers), defeated;
Evelyn
Sell (Socialist Workers), defeated;
Frank
Troha (Socialist Labor), defeated;
Peter
Goonis (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1969 Nov 8:
Leroy
G. Augenstein, died in office.
1969 Dec 9:
M.
Gorton Riethmiller, appointed.
1970 Nov 3:
Thomas
J. Brennan (Dem), elected;
Annetta
Miller (Dem), elected;
David
Robinson II (Rep), defeated;
R.
Robert Geake (Rep), defeated;
David
Lindsay (Socialist Labor), defeated;
Peter
Goonis (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1972:
Thomas
J. Brennan, resigned.
1972 Nov 7:
William
A. Sederberg (Rep), elected;
Edmund
F. Vandette (Rep), elected;
Charles
E. Morton (Dem), defeated;
Gumecindo
Salas (Dem), defeated;
Mary
G. Calder (American Independent), defeated;
Frederick
S. Kline (American Independent), defeated;
Howard
L. Jones (Human Rights), defeated;
Thomas
E. Girard (Socialist Labor), defeated;
James
E. Wells (Conservative), defeated;
Edgar
Thomas (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1972 Dec 20:
Barbara
Dumouchelle, appointed.
1974 Sep 1:
Michael
J. Deeb, resigned.
1974 Nov 5:
Barbara
Roberts (Dem), elected;
Roger
Tilles (Dem), elected;
James
F. O'Neil (Rep), defeated;
Florence
F. Saltzman (Rep), defeated;
Bernard
J. Skibinski (American Independent), defeated;
Vern
G. Morse (American Independent), defeated;
Karen
Lee Baize (Human Rights), defeated;
Lordell
J. Taylor (Human Rights), defeated;
Gertrude
Hawkins (Socialist Workers), defeated;
Peggy
Goldman (Communist), defeated;
Richard
Burgis (Socialist Labor), defeated;
Sheila
Jaber (U.S. Labor), defeated;
Frank
Troha (Socialist Labor), defeated;
Burton
Lee Artz (Socialist Workers), defeated.
1974 Nov 12:
M.
Gorton Riethmiller, appointed.
1975:
William
A. Sederberg, resigned;
Roger
Tilles, resigned.
1975 Jan 10:
Norman
O. Stockmeyer, appointed.
1975 Aug 26:
Paul
B. Henry, appointed.
1976 Nov 2:
John
Watanen, Jr. (Dem), elected;
Gumecindo
Salas (Dem), elected;
Florence
F. Saltzman (Rep), defeated;
Clarence
E. Dukes (Rep), defeated;
Elizabeth
H. Nall (Human Rights), defeated;
Howard
L. Jones (Human Rights), defeated;
Virginia
Courter (Libertarian), defeated;
Maureen
Vermeer (Libertarian), defeated;
Al
Duncan (Socialist Workers), defeated;
Charles
Schwartz (Socialist Labor), defeated;
Frank
Troha (Socialist Labor), defeated.
1978:
Paul
B. Henry, resigned.
1978 Nov 7:
Annetta
Miller (Dem), elected;
Barbara
Dumouchelle (Rep), elected;
Malcolm
G. Dade, Jr. (Dem), defeated;
Silverenia
Q. Kanoyton (Rep), defeated.
1978 Dec 29:
Silverenia
Q. Kanoyton, appointed.
1980 Nov 4:
Norman
O. Stockmeyer (Rep), elected;
Edmund
F. Vandette (Rep), elected;
Carroll
M. Hutton (Dem), defeated;
James
H. Lincoln (Dem), defeated;
Christine
Young (Libertarian), defeated;
Scott
James Ballard (Libertarian), defeated;
Walter
B. Dyer (American Independent), defeated;
Daniel
Eller (American Independent), defeated.
1981:
Silverenia
Q. Kanoyton, resigned.
1981 Aug 1:
David
Laro, appointed.
1982 Nov 2:
Barbara
Roberts Mason (Dem), elected;
Carroll
M. Hutton (Dem), elected;
Jackie
McGregor (Rep), defeated;
Ronald
G. Erickson (Rep), defeated;
Carmen
Bradley (Tisch Independent Citizens), defeated;
Denise
Kline (Libertarian), defeated;
Ruthann
A. Wagner (American Independent), defeated;
Frederick
J. Dechow (Libertarian), defeated;
Peggy
Goldman Frankie (Communist), defeated;
John
P. Santuci, Jr. (American Independent), defeated.
1984 Nov 6:
Dorothy
A. Beardmore (Rep), elected;
Cherry
H. Jacobus (Rep), elected;
John
Watanen, Jr. (Dem), defeated;
Gumecindo
Salas (Dem), defeated;
Marjorie
F. Morris (Tisch Independent Citizens), defeated;
Lois
Mellberg (Tisch Independent Citizens), defeated;
Gwendoline
Stillwell (Libertarian), defeated;
Harold
M. Boog (Libertarian), defeated;
Peggy
Goldman Frankie (Communist), defeated.
1986 Nov 4:
Annetta
Miller (Dem), elected;
Gumecindo
Salas (Dem), elected;
Barbara
Dumouchelle (Rep), defeated;
Patricia
A. Hartnagle (Rep), defeated;
Robert
E. Tisch (Tisch Independent Citizens), defeated;
Robert
C. Mac Donald (Ind), defeated;
Denise
Kline (Ind), defeated;
John
A. Green (Ind), defeated;
David
A. Weidner (Ind), defeated.
1988:
Carroll
M. Hutton, resigned.
1988 Nov 8:
Barbara
Dumouchelle (Rep), elected;
Marilyn
F. Lundy (Rep), elected;
Lawrence
D. Crawford (Dem), defeated;
Stephen
T. Economy (Dem), defeated;
Robert
E. Tisch (Tisch Independent Citizens), defeated;
Fayanne
G. Kaufman (Tisch Independent Citizens), defeated;
Virginia
L. Cropsey (Libertarian), defeated;
James
W. Clifton (Libertarian), defeated;
Annette
Johnson (Workers Against Concessions), defeated;
Verna
A. Baird (Workers Against Concessions), defeated.
1990 Nov 6:
Barbara
Roberts Mason (Dem), elected;
Dick
DeVos (Rep), elected;
Lowell
Perry (Rep), defeated;
Rollie
Hopgood (Dem), defeated;
Robert
E. Tisch (Tisch Independent Citizens), defeated;
Fayanne
G. Kaufman (Tisch Independent Citizens), defeated;
Mary
J. Ruwart (Libertarian), defeated;
Gwendoline
Stillwell (Libertarian), defeated.
1992:
Barbara
Dumouchelle, resigned.
1992 Jul 13:
Katherine
J. DeGrow, appointed.
1992 Nov 3:
Kathleen
Straus (Dem), elected;
Dorothy
A. Beardmore (Rep), elected;
Roman
P. Bochenek (Dem), defeated;
Harry
Greenleaf (Rep), defeated;
Fayanne
G. Kaufman (Tisch Independent Citizens), defeated;
Mary
J. Ruwart (Libertarian), defeated;
Nancy
I. List (Natural Law), defeated;
Donald
D. Schneider (Tisch Independent Citizens), defeated;
William
Roundtree (Workers World), defeated.
1994 Nov 8:
Sharon
Wise (Rep), elected;
W.
Clark Durant (Rep), elected;
Carol
C. Thomas (Dem), defeated;
Gumecindo
Salas (Dem), defeated;
Erwin
J. Haas (Libertarian), defeated;
David
H. Raaflaub (Libertarian), defeated;
Selina
Babcock (Natural Law), defeated;
ReBecca
Jo Flora (Workers World), defeated.
1996:
Diane
Barnes (Libertarian), defeated;
Alixandra
P. Summit (Natural Law), defeated;
Barbara
B. Goushaw (Libertarian), defeated;
Louis
Legg (Rep), defeated.
1998 Nov 3:
Sharon
L. Gire (Dem), elected;
Eileen
Weiser (Rep), elected;
Barbara
Roberts Mason (Dem), defeated;
Gary
Wolfram (Rep), defeated;
Diane
Barnes (Libertarian), defeated;
Jon
Coon (Libertarian), defeated;
Eric
Borregard (Reform), defeated;
Gail
Quarton (Natural Law), defeated;
Artie
Fields (Reform), defeated;
Alixandra
P. Summit (Natural Law), defeated.
1999 Sep 16:
W.
Clark Durant, resigned.
2002 Nov 5:
Elizabeth
W. Bauer (Dem), elected;
Carolyn
L. Curtin (Rep), elected;
Michael
Warren (Rep), defeated;
Nancy
L. Quarles (Dem), defeated;
Scotty
Boman (Libertarian), defeated;
Diane
Barnes (Libertarian), defeated;
Karen
Anne Shelley (Green), defeated;
Kyle
Moxley (Green), defeated;
Judith
Czak (U.S. Taxpayers), defeated;
Ronald
C. Monroe (U.S. Taxpayers), defeated;
Michael
A. Kitchen (Natural Law), defeated.
2004 Nov 2:
Marianne
Y. McGuire (Dem), elected;
Nancy
Danhof (Rep), elected;
Herbert
S. Moyer (Dem), defeated;
Robert
M. Smart (Rep), defeated;
Scotty
Boman (Libertarian), defeated;
Gail
M. Graeser (U.S. Taxpayers), defeated;
Peter
Ponzetti (Green), defeated;
Stephanie
Poortenga (U.S. Taxpayers), defeated;
Ernie
Whiteside (Libertarian), defeated;
Colette
McLogan (Natural Law), defeated.
2012 Nov 6:
Michelle
Fecteau (Dem), elected;
Lupe
Ramos-Montigny (Dem), elected;
Todd
A. Courser (Rep), defeated;
Melanie
A. Kurdys (Rep), defeated;
Karen
Adams (U.S. Taxpayers), defeated;
Andrew
Le Cureaux (Libertarian), defeated;
Candace
R. Caveny (Green), defeated;
Gail
M. Graeser (U.S. Taxpayers), defeated;
Dwain
Reynolds III (Green), defeated.
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