Members of Michigan State Board of Education, 1849-2022(May be incomplete!)
SamuelNewberry 1849-50IsaacE. Crary 1850-54ChaunceyJoslin 1851-54HiramL. Miller 1854-57JohnR. Kellogg 1855-60GeorgeWillard 1857-62WitterJ. Baxter 1857-76EdwinWillits 1861-72EdwardDorsch 1873-78WitterJ. Baxter 1877-81BelaW. Jenks 1881-88SamuelS. Babcock 1887-92E.Finley Johnson 1898-1901PerryF. Powers 1899-1900FrederickA. Platt 1899-1901LutherL. Wright 1901-06PatrickH. Kelley 1901-05WilliamJ. McKone 1906-15DexterM. Ferry, Jr. 1906-13WilliamA. Cotton 1907-11ThomasW. Nadal 1911-17FrankCody 1914-43FredA. Jeffers 1915-33ThomasE. Johnson 1917-19AllenM. Freeland 1919-35MaryF. Farnsworth 1939-45StephenS. Nisbet 1943-61LouisaDurham Mohr 1945-53WalterF. Gries 1953-59FrankHartman 1961-64JamesF. O'Neil 1963-64RobertP. Briggs 1964-68ThomasJ. Brennan 1965-72LeonFill 1965-66MarilynJean Kelly 1965-76PeterOppewall 1965-70LeroyG. Augenstein 1967-69JamesF. O'Neil 1967-74M.Gorton Riethmiller 1969-76AnnettaMiller 1971-94BarbaraDumouchelle 1972-86WilliamA. Sederberg 1973-75BarbaraRoberts Mason 1975-98PaulB. Henry 1975-78GumecindoSalas 1977-84NormanO. Stockmeyer 1981-88CarrollM. Hutton 1983-88CherryH. Jacobus 1985-92GumecindoSalas 1987-94BarbaraDumouchelle 1989-92DickDeVos 1991-93KatherineJ. DeGrow 1992-96KathleenStraus 1993-W.Clark Durant 1995-99MarianneY. McGuire 1997-SharonL. Gire 1999- Events and Candidates(may be incomplete!)
1850 Mar 29:IsaacE. Crary, appointed. 1854 May 8:IsaacE. Crary, died in office. 1854 Nov 7:HiramL. Miller, appointed. 1857 Jul 15:HiramL. Miller, resigned. 1857 Jul 21:WitterJ. Baxter, appointed. 1876 Oct 26:WitterJ. Baxter, resigned. 1881 Apr 6:WitterJ. Baxter, resigned. 1881 Apr 21:BelaW. Jenks, appointed. 1882 Nov 7:BelaW. Jenks, elected. 1886:OrrenE. Downing (Prohibition), defeated. 1894:FrederickH. Olmstead, defeated;MichaelDevereaux (Dem), defeated. 1898 May 18:E.Finley Johnson, appointed. 1898 Nov 8:FrederickA. Platt (Rep), elected. 1901:E.Finley Johnson, resigned;FrederickA. Platt, resigned;LutherL. Wright, appointed. 1901 Apr 10:PatrickH. Kelley, appointed. 1902:LutherL. Wright (Rep), elected;CharlesF. Field (Dem), defeated. 1904:LutherL. Wright, elected. 1905:PatrickH. Kelley, resigned. 1905 Apr 3:WilliamJ. McKone (Rep), elected;JamesG. Henley (Dem), defeated;CharlesA. Salyer (Prohibition), defeated;AlbenE. Higgins, defeated. 1906 Jan 11:DexterM. Ferry, Jr., appointed. 1906 Nov 6:DexterM. Ferry, Jr. (Rep), elected;JamesE. Sullivan (Dem), defeated;GeorgeA. Parmenter (Prohibition), defeated;J.Eugene Andrews (Socialist), defeated;HenryUlbricht (Socialist Labor), defeated. 1907 Jan 8:WilliamA. Cotton, appointed. 1909 Apr 5:WilliamJ. McKone (Rep), elected;HenryKremers (Dem), defeated;LeroyH. White (Prohibition), defeated;AlexanderM. Stirton (Socialist), defeated. 1911:WilliamA. Cotton, resigned. 1911 Feb 2:ThomasW. Nadal, appointed. 1911 Apr 3:ThomasW. Nadal (Rep), elected;JamesA. King (Dem), defeated;NellyKnott (Socialist), defeated;WesleyC. Richards, defeated. 1915 Apr 5:FredA. Jeffers (Rep), elected;PaulVan Deinse (Dem), defeated;WilliamS. Leavenworth (Progressive), defeated;JosephM. Carrier (Socialist), defeated;CharlesA. Salyer (Prohibition), defeated. 1917 Apr 2:E.K. Mohr (Prohibition), defeated. 1919 Apr 23:AllenM. Freeland, appointed. 1923 Apr 2:AllenM. Freeland (Rep), elected;MaryL. Hinsdale (Dem), defeated;MarthaJ. McColl (Prohibition), defeated. 1927 Apr 4:FredA. Jeffers (Rep), elected;RobertC. Young (Dem), defeated;LillianB. Locker (Prohibition), defeated;ArnoldZiegler (Workers), defeated. 1929 Apr 1:AllenM. Freeland (Rep), elected;BenjaminH. Halstead (Dem), defeated;IdaS. Wilson (Socialist), defeated;CharlesS. Rennells (Prohibition), defeated. 1931 Apr 6:FrankCody (Rep), elected;JohnC. Lehr (Dem), defeated;AxelO. Londal (Socialist), defeated. 1933 Apr 3:EdnaC. Wilson (Dem), elected;FredA. Jeffers (Rep), defeated;ChesterGraham (Socialist), defeated;EdithR. Luttenbacher (Prohibition), defeated. 1935 Apr 1:WynandWichers (Rep), elected;WilliamR. Booker (Dem), defeated;WalterH. Allmendinger (Socialist), defeated;H.J. Evje (Farmer-Labor), defeated;RayT. Fuller (Commonwealth), defeated;EdithM. Gardthausen (American), defeated. 1939 Apr 3:MaryF. Farnsworth (Rep), elected;EdnaC. Wilson (Dem), defeated;CarlJohnson (Socialist), defeated;HarrySchwarzentraub (Commonwealth), defeated. 1941 Apr 7:WynandWichers (Rep), elected;FrancesComfort (Dem), defeated;WilliamE. Heslop (Prohibition), defeated. 1943:FrankCody, resigned. 1943 Jan 2:StephenS. Nisbet, appointed. 1943 Apr 5:StephenS. Nisbet (Rep), elected;BernardT. Foley (Dem), defeated;ClarenceH. Snyder (Prohibition), defeated. 1945 Apr 2:CharlesG. Burns (Rep), elected;CarlO. Smith (Dem), defeated. 1945 Sep 24:WynandWichers, resigned. 1945 Sep 26:LouisaI. Durham, appointed. 1947 Apr 7:LouisaI. Durham (Rep), elected;VictorTargonski (Dem), defeated;OscarC. Griswold (Prohibition), defeated. 1949 Apr 4:StephenS. Nisbet (Rep), elected;JamesT. Bolan (Dem), defeated;DeveraStocker (Progressive), defeated;OscarC. Griswold (Prohibition), defeated. 1951 Apr 2:CharlesG. Burns (Rep), elected;LouisJ. McGuinness (Dem), defeated;LeRoyM. Lowell (Prohibition), defeated;RuthSt. Aubin (Progressive), defeated;AlicePollak (Socialist Workers), defeated;JamesC. Horvath (Socialist Labor), defeated. 1953 Apr 6:WalterF. Gries (Rep), elected;FredaC. Parmelee (Dem), defeated;OthoJennings (Prohibition), defeated;AlbertMills (Socialist Labor), defeated. 1955 Apr 4:StephenS. Nisbet (Rep), elected;JohnM. Veale (Dem), defeated;OthoJennings (Prohibition), defeated;TheosA. Grove (Socialist Labor), defeated;RobertHimmel, Jr. (Socialist Workers), defeated. 1957 Apr 1:ChrisH. Magnusson (Dem), elected;GeorgeW. Dean (Rep), defeated;OthoJennings (Prohibition), defeated. 1959 Apr 6:CorneliaA. Robinson (Dem), elected;CharlesG. Burns (Rep), defeated;JamesC. Horvath (Socialist Labor), defeated;OscarC. Griswold (Prohibition), defeated. 1961 Apr 3:FrankHartman (Dem), elected;CharlesRogers (Rep), defeated;LarryDolinski (Socialist Workers), defeated;OscarC. Griswold (Prohibition), defeated;EdnaA. Conklin (Independent American), defeated. 1963 Apr 1:JamesF. O'Neil (Rep), elected;GeraldTuchow (Dem), defeated;JamesC. Horvath (Socialist Labor), defeated. 1964 Nov 3:DonaldM. D. Thurber (Dem), elected;LeonFill (Dem), elected;KarlaParker (Rep), defeated;EllenM. Solomonson (Rep), defeated;MargaretWillis (Freedom Now), defeated;HenryL. Hill (Freedom Now), defeated. 1964 Nov 3:MarilynJean Kelly (Dem), elected;CarmenL. DelliQuadri (Dem), elected;JoyceHatton (Rep), defeated;BourkeW. Lodewyk (Rep), defeated;HelenKelly (Freedom Now), defeated;ClaraMaravin (Freedom Now), defeated. 1964 Nov 3:ThomasJ. Brennan (Dem), elected;PeterOppewall (Dem), elected;RobertP. Briggs (Rep), defeated;JohnC. Kreger (Rep), defeated;MattieR. Mays (Freedom Now), defeated;ConstanceDiane Molette (Freedom Now), defeated. 1964 Nov 3:EdwinL. Novak (Dem), elected;CharlesE. Morton (Dem), elected;AlvinM. Bentley (Rep), defeated;JamesF. O'Neil (Rep), defeated;JohnR. Thomas (Freedom Now), defeated;EllaMae Perryman (Freedom Now), defeated. 1964 Nov 10:RobertP. Briggs, appointed. 1966 Nov 8:JamesF. O'Neil (Rep), elected;LeroyG. Augenstein (Rep), elected;DonaldM. D. Thurber (Dem), defeated;LeonFill (Dem), defeated;FrankGirard (Socialist Labor), defeated;WarrenCarlen (Socialist Labor), defeated. 1968 Nov 5:MarilynJean Kelly (Dem), elected;MichaelJ. Deeb (Dem), elected;JamesW. TenBrink (Rep), defeated;BarbaraDumouchelle (Rep), defeated;EllenRobinson (Socialist Workers), defeated;EvelynSell (Socialist Workers), defeated;FrankTroha (Socialist Labor), defeated;PeterGoonis (Socialist Labor), defeated. 1969 Nov 8:LeroyG. Augenstein, died in office. 1969 Dec 9:M.Gorton Riethmiller, appointed. 1970 Nov 3:ThomasJ. Brennan (Dem), elected;AnnettaMiller (Dem), elected;DavidRobinson II (Rep), defeated;R.Robert Geake (Rep), defeated;DavidLindsay (Socialist Labor), defeated;PeterGoonis (Socialist Labor), defeated. 1972:ThomasJ. Brennan, resigned. 1972 Nov 7:WilliamA. Sederberg (Rep), elected;EdmundF. Vandette (Rep), elected;CharlesE. Morton (Dem), defeated;GumecindoSalas (Dem), defeated;MaryG. Calder (American Independent), defeated;FrederickS. Kline (American Independent), defeated;HowardL. Jones (Human Rights), defeated;ThomasE. Girard (Socialist Labor), defeated;JamesE. Wells (Conservative), defeated;EdgarThomas (Socialist Labor), defeated. 1972 Dec 20:BarbaraDumouchelle, appointed. 1974 Sep 1:MichaelJ. Deeb, resigned. 1974 Nov 5:BarbaraRoberts (Dem), elected;RogerTilles (Dem), elected;JamesF. O'Neil (Rep), defeated;FlorenceF. Saltzman (Rep), defeated;BernardJ. Skibinski (American Independent), defeated;VernG. Morse (American Independent), defeated;KarenLee Baize (Human Rights), defeated;LordellJ. Taylor (Human Rights), defeated;GertrudeHawkins (Socialist Workers), defeated;PeggyGoldman (Communist), defeated;RichardBurgis (Socialist Labor), defeated;SheilaJaber (U.S. Labor), defeated;FrankTroha (Socialist Labor), defeated;BurtonLee Artz (Socialist Workers), defeated. 1974 Nov 12:M.Gorton Riethmiller, appointed. 1975:WilliamA. Sederberg, resigned;RogerTilles, resigned. 1975 Jan 10:NormanO. Stockmeyer, appointed. 1975 Aug 26:PaulB. Henry, appointed. 1976 Nov 2:JohnWatanen, Jr. (Dem), elected;GumecindoSalas (Dem), elected;FlorenceF. Saltzman (Rep), defeated;ClarenceE. Dukes (Rep), defeated;ElizabethH. Nall (Human Rights), defeated;HowardL. Jones (Human Rights), defeated;VirginiaCourter (Libertarian), defeated;MaureenVermeer (Libertarian), defeated;AlDuncan (Socialist Workers), defeated;CharlesSchwartz (Socialist Labor), defeated;FrankTroha (Socialist Labor), defeated. 1978:PaulB. Henry, resigned. 1978 Nov 7:AnnettaMiller (Dem), elected;BarbaraDumouchelle (Rep), elected;MalcolmG. Dade, Jr. (Dem), defeated;SilvereniaQ. Kanoyton (Rep), defeated. 1978 Dec 29:SilvereniaQ. Kanoyton, appointed. 1980 Nov 4:NormanO. Stockmeyer (Rep), elected;EdmundF. Vandette (Rep), elected;CarrollM. Hutton (Dem), defeated;JamesH. Lincoln (Dem), defeated;ChristineYoung (Libertarian), defeated;ScottJames Ballard (Libertarian), defeated;WalterB. Dyer (American Independent), defeated;DanielEller (American Independent), defeated. 1981:SilvereniaQ. Kanoyton, resigned. 1981 Aug 1:DavidLaro, appointed. 1982 Nov 2:BarbaraRoberts Mason (Dem), elected;CarrollM. Hutton (Dem), elected;JackieMcGregor (Rep), defeated;RonaldG. Erickson (Rep), defeated;CarmenBradley (Tisch Independent Citizens), defeated;DeniseKline (Libertarian), defeated;RuthannA. Wagner (American Independent), defeated;FrederickJ. Dechow (Libertarian), defeated;PeggyGoldman Frankie (Communist), defeated;JohnP. Santuci, Jr. (American Independent), defeated. 1984 Nov 6:DorothyA. Beardmore (Rep), elected;CherryH. Jacobus (Rep), elected;JohnWatanen, Jr. (Dem), defeated;GumecindoSalas (Dem), defeated;MarjorieF. Morris (Tisch Independent Citizens), defeated;LoisMellberg (Tisch Independent Citizens), defeated;GwendolineStillwell (Libertarian), defeated;HaroldM. Boog (Libertarian), defeated;PeggyGoldman Frankie (Communist), defeated. 1986 Nov 4:AnnettaMiller (Dem), elected;GumecindoSalas (Dem), elected;BarbaraDumouchelle (Rep), defeated;PatriciaA. Hartnagle (Rep), defeated;RobertE. Tisch (Tisch Independent Citizens), defeated;RobertC. Mac Donald (Ind), defeated;DeniseKline (Ind), defeated;JohnA. Green (Ind), defeated;DavidA. Weidner (Ind), defeated. 1988:CarrollM. Hutton, resigned. 1988 Nov 8:BarbaraDumouchelle (Rep), elected;MarilynF. Lundy (Rep), elected;LawrenceD. Crawford (Dem), defeated;StephenT. Economy (Dem), defeated;RobertE. Tisch (Tisch Independent Citizens), defeated;FayanneG. Kaufman (Tisch Independent Citizens), defeated;VirginiaL. Cropsey (Libertarian), defeated;JamesW. Clifton (Libertarian), defeated;AnnetteJohnson (Workers Against Concessions), defeated;VernaA. Baird (Workers Against Concessions), defeated. 1990 Nov 6:BarbaraRoberts Mason (Dem), elected;DickDeVos (Rep), elected;LowellPerry (Rep), defeated;RollieHopgood (Dem), defeated;RobertE. Tisch (Tisch Independent Citizens), defeated;FayanneG. Kaufman (Tisch Independent Citizens), defeated;MaryJ. Ruwart (Libertarian), defeated;GwendolineStillwell (Libertarian), defeated. 1992:BarbaraDumouchelle, resigned. 1992 Jul 13:KatherineJ. DeGrow, appointed. 1992 Nov 3:KathleenStraus (Dem), elected;DorothyA. Beardmore (Rep), elected;RomanP. Bochenek (Dem), defeated;HarryGreenleaf (Rep), defeated;FayanneG. Kaufman (Tisch Independent Citizens), defeated;MaryJ. Ruwart (Libertarian), defeated;NancyI. List (Natural Law), defeated;DonaldD. Schneider (Tisch Independent Citizens), defeated;WilliamRoundtree (Workers World), defeated. 1994 Nov 8:SharonWise (Rep), elected;W.Clark Durant (Rep), elected;CarolC. Thomas (Dem), defeated;GumecindoSalas (Dem), defeated;ErwinJ. Haas (Libertarian), defeated;DavidH. Raaflaub (Libertarian), defeated;SelinaBabcock (Natural Law), defeated;ReBeccaJo Flora (Workers World), defeated. 1996:DianeBarnes (Libertarian), defeated;AlixandraP. Summit (Natural Law), defeated;BarbaraB. Goushaw (Libertarian), defeated;LouisLegg (Rep), defeated. 1998 Nov 3:SharonL. Gire (Dem), elected;EileenWeiser (Rep), elected;BarbaraRoberts Mason (Dem), defeated;GaryWolfram (Rep), defeated;DianeBarnes (Libertarian), defeated;JonCoon (Libertarian), defeated;EricBorregard (Reform), defeated;GailQuarton (Natural Law), defeated;ArtieFields (Reform), defeated;AlixandraP. Summit (Natural Law), defeated. 1999 Sep 16:W.Clark Durant, resigned. 2002 Nov 5:ElizabethW. Bauer (Dem), elected;CarolynL. Curtin (Rep), elected;MichaelWarren (Rep), defeated;NancyL. Quarles (Dem), defeated;ScottyBoman (Libertarian), defeated;DianeBarnes (Libertarian), defeated;KarenAnne Shelley (Green), defeated;KyleMoxley (Green), defeated;JudithCzak (U.S. Taxpayers), defeated;RonaldC. Monroe (U.S. Taxpayers), defeated;MichaelA. Kitchen (Natural Law), defeated. 2004 Nov 2:MarianneY. McGuire (Dem), elected;NancyDanhof (Rep), elected;HerbertS. Moyer (Dem), defeated;RobertM. Smart (Rep), defeated;ScottyBoman (Libertarian), defeated;GailM. Graeser (U.S. Taxpayers), defeated;PeterPonzetti (Green), defeated;StephaniePoortenga (U.S. Taxpayers), defeated;ErnieWhiteside (Libertarian), defeated;ColetteMcLogan (Natural Law), defeated. 2008 Nov 4:WilliamW. Hall (Libertarian), defeated. 2010 Nov 2:WilliamW. Hall (Libertarian), defeated. 2012 Nov 6:MichelleFecteau (Dem), elected;LupeRamos-Montigny (Dem), elected;ToddA. Courser (Rep), defeated;MelanieA. Kurdys (Rep), defeated;KarenAdams (U.S. Taxpayers), defeated;AndrewLe Cureaux (Libertarian), defeated;CandaceR. Caveny (Green), defeated;GailM. Graeser (U.S. Taxpayers), defeated;DwainReynolds III (Green), defeated. 2016 Nov 8:ScottyBoman (Libertarian), defeated;WilliamW. Hall (Libertarian), defeated. 2018 Nov 6:ScottyBoman (Libertarian), defeated. 2020 Nov 3:WilliamW. Hall (Libertarian), defeated. 2022 Nov 8:WilliamW. Hall (Libertarian), defeated. | |
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