U.S. District Attorneys in Michigan
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U.S. District Attorneys in Michigan
U.S. District Attorneys for Michigan, 1815-63(may beincomplete!)
SolomonSibley 1815-24AndrewC. Whitney 1824-26DanielLeRoy 1826-34DanielGoodwin 1834-41GeorgeC. Bates 1841-45JohnNorvell 1845-50GeorgeC. Bates 1850-52SamuelBarstow 1852-53GeorgeE. Hand 1853-57JosephMiller, Jr. 1857-61WilliamL. Stoughton 1861AlfredRussell 1861-63
U.S. District Attorneys for Michigan, 1869-1998(may beincomplete!)
AaronB. Maynard 1869SullivanM. Cutcheon 1877-85CyreniusP. Black 1885-90TheodoreF. Shepard 1890-94JaredW. Finney 1894AlfredP. Lyon 1894-98JaredW. Finney 1898WilliamD. Gordon 1898-1906FrankH. Watson 1906-11ArthurJ. Tuttle 1911-12ClydeJ. Webster 1912-16JohnE. Kinnane 1916-21EarlJ. Davis 1921-24DelosG. Smith 1924-27O.L. Smith 1927-28JohnR. Watkins 1928-31GregoryH. Frederick 1931-36JohnC. Lehr 1936-47ThomasP. Thornton 1947-49JosephC. Murphy 1949EdwardT. Kane 1949-51PhilipA. Hart 1952-53FrederickW. Kaess 1953-60GeorgeE. Woods, Jr. 1960-61LawrenceGubow 1961-68RobertJ. Grace 1968-69JamesH. Brickley 1969-70RalphB. Guy, Jr. 1970-76FrederickS. Van Tiem 1976PhilipM. Van Dam 1976-77JamesK. Robinson 1977-80RichardA. Rossman 1980-81LeonardR. Gilman 1981-85JoelM. Shere 1985RoyC. Hayes 1985-89StephenJ. Markman 1989-93RossParker 1993AlanM. Gershel 1993SaulA. Green 1994-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Attorneys for Michigan, 1863-1998(may beincomplete!)
FrederickO. Rogers 1863-69JohnH. Standish 1869-77MarsdenC. Burch 1877-82JohnW. Stone 1882-86G.Chase Godwin 1886-90LewisG. Palmer 1890-94JohnPower 1894-98GeorgeG. Covell 1898-1910FredC. Wetmore 1910-14EdwardJ. Bowman 1914MyronH. Walker 1914-22EdwardJ. Bowman 1922-30FredC. Wetmore 1930-33JosephM. Donnelly 1933-37FredC. Wetmore 1937FrancisT. McDonald 1937-40JosephF. Deeb 1940-53WendellA. Miles 1953-60RobertJ. Danhof 1960-61GeorgeE. Hill 1961-64RobertG. Quinn 1964-65HaroldD. Beaton 1965-69JohnP. Milanowski 1969-74FrankS. Spies 1974-77JamesS. Brady 1977-81RobertC. Greene 1981JohnA. Smietanka 1981-94ThomasJ. Gezon 1994MichaelH. Dettmer 1994-
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