Franklin County's Elected Officials
Treasurer | Surveyor | School Superintendent | Sheriff | Register of Deeds | Railroad Assessor | Probate Judge | Coroner | Commissioner, 2nd District | Commissioner, 3rd District | Commissioner, 1st District | Commissioner, At Large | Clerk of the District Court | County Clerk | County Attorney | Assessor | State Representatives |
Juanita Lucas 1993 - Pres
Vera Figgins 1987 - 1993
Marilyn Talbott (Republican)1977 - 1987
Dorothy Thompson 1971 - 1977
Velma F. Powers 1965 - 1971
Almeda Sinclair-Edwards 1961 - 1965
Roselyn Whirley 1959 - 1961
Elizabeth E. Briggs 1953 - 1959
F. L. Baughman 1949 - 1953
Edwin Snyder (Republican)1945 - 1949
Harry T. Jordan 1941 - 1945
Leila E. Stiles 1937 - 1941
Catherine Campbell 1933 - 1937
Leila E. Stiles 1929 - 1933
J. F. Beelin 1925 - 1929
George S. McCurdy 1921 - 1925
J. Berlin 1917 - 1921
J. H. Springer 1913 - 1917
E. E. Smith 1909 - 1913
J. L. Stratton (Republican)1905 - 1909
A. E. Clark 1901 - 1905
George E. Evans 1898 - 1901
C. W. Oldroyd 1896 - 1898
J. L. Henderson 1892 - 1896
J. N. Harrison 1886 - 1892
A. J. Wightman 1881 - 1886
A. V. Cobb 1880 - 1881
S. Barnett 1876 - 1880
Milo R. Harris 1874 - 1876
J. P. Harris 1870 - 1874
John Walruff 1869 - 1870
Asa Harris 1868 - 1869
John Walruff 1865 - 1868
Robert Reed 1865 - 1865
James Fitton 1862 - 1865
T. J. Mewhinney 1860 - 1861
M. E. Alderman 1919 - 1921
M. G. O'Neal 1917 - 1919
R. F. Mason 1913 - 1917
Harry E. Gillette 1909 - 1913
Mury Diven 1907 - 1909
Harry E. Gillette 1905 - 1907
James A. Service 1899 - 1905
Charles R. Hutchings 1898 - 1899
P. P. Lester 1896 - 1898
James A. Service 1888 - 1896
A. C. Titus 1886 - 1888
A. M. Brinn 1884 - 1886
R. Kinnear 1882 - 1884
W. D. Edgar 1880 - 1882
R. Kinnear 1876 - 1880
E. J. Chamberlain 1872 - 1876
W. D. Walsh 1867 - 1872
William D. Edgar 1865 - 1867
H. V. Beason 1860 - 1865
Maurice Ponton 1967 - 1969
Lauren Y. Gaddis 1963 - 1967
Maurice Ponton 1961 - 1963
Jay J. Scott 1957 - 1961
John A. Fleming 1955 - 1957
Lena Hutchins 1947 - 1955
Ethel Rule-Seymour (Republican)1939 - 1947
Fred L. Settles 1933 - 1939
Fern E. Streebin 1931 - 1933
Nellie M. Nordyke 1925 - 1931
Ellin Larson 1923 - 1925
Florence Akin 1921 - 1923
W. A. Vickers 1915 - 1921
Etta Joe McCoy 1911 - 1915
Charles A. Jacobus 1909 - 1911
J. E. Baker 1905 - 1909
E. E. Smith 1903 - 1905
T. T. Gentry 1901 - 1903
(under new law taking effect 1901, County School Superintendent's
term began in May. Under old law term began in January.)
E. E. Smith 1899 - 1901
T. T. Gentry 1897 - 1899
J. M. Morrison 1895 - 1897
J. F. Maxey 1891 - 1895
P. A. Hilderbran 1889 - 1891
F. M. Dicklow 1885 - 1889
H. Ellis 1881 - 1885
Philetus Fales 1879 - 1881
W. W. Manning 1877 - 1879
A. C. Peck 1875 - 1877
Philetus Fales 1867 - 1875
Asa Harris 1867 - 1867
A. H. Dow 1866 - 1867
R. M. Howard 1865 - 1866
Jacob Sumstine 1864 - 1865
J. O. Allen 1863 - 1865
William Delano 1861 - 1863
James Hanway 1860 - 1861
Rex Bowling (Republican)1975 - Pres
Lewis Ashcraft 1973 - 1975
Joe Ferns 1963 - 1973
Max R. Gilmore 1959 - 1963
Jay Brown 1955 - 1959
John E. "Jack" O'Neal 1951 - 1955
V. M. "Pete" Kinnison 1947 - 1951
Roy B. Church (Republican)1943 - 1945
Harry G. Cochrane 1939 - 1943
Olin C. Minckley 1935 - 1939
L. C. Wantland (Republican)1933 - 1935
L. C. Geiger (Republican)1929 - 1933
C. E. Wright (Democrat) 1925 - 1929
Elvie Allison 1921 - 1925
W. S. Barnett 1917 - 1921
Nick Johnson 1913 - 1917
W. P. Latimer 1909 - 1913
W. R. Cody (Democrat)1905 - 1909
S. P. Costigan 1900 - 1905
D. S. Church 1896 - 1900
Fred Gault 1894 - 1896
James A. Elwell 1890 - 1894
J. N. Bell 1886 - 1890
J. A. Harrison 1884 - 1886
Thomas F. Westfall 1880 - 1884
William O. Pickrell 1876 - 1880
Richard E. Jenness 1872 - 1876
C. L. Robbins 1870 - 1872
Richard E. Jenness 1866 - 1870
C. L. Robbins 1862 - 1866
H. A. Cook 1860 - 1862
C. L. Robbins 1859 - 1860
Sue A. McCay 1993 - Pres
Shirley Capper (Republican)1969 - 1993
Ofelita Ivey (Republican)1959 - 1969
Opal Blunt-Letchworth (Republican)1945 - 1959
Sadie H. Steele 1937 - 1945
Bessie Conley 1931 - 1937
Lynne A. Wilson 1921 - 1931
Etta Ross Williamson 1917 - 1921
C. F. Houser 1911 - 1917
Ada B. Rodman 1907(1909) - 1911
F. E. Sumstine (Republican)1903(1905) - 1907
J. W. Brinkerhoff 1900 - 1903
G. C. Appleton Apr 1899 - 1900
G. F. Appleton 1896 - Apr 1899
J. C. Simmons Nov 1892 - 1896
E. A. Preshaw Oct 1892 - Nov 1892
J. T. Preshaw 1892 - Oct 1892
L. L. Porter 1890 - 1892
M. H. Sherman 1886 - 1890
Frank A. Baker 1884 - 1886
H. B. F. Keller 1880 - 1884
Duncan Holiday 1872 - 1880
H. F. Sheldon 1864 - 1872
Jacob Sumstine 1862 - 1864
G. W. E. Griffith Oct 1861 - 1862
T. Sampson 1874 - 1876
F. Gleason 1872 - 1874
PROBATE JUDGE (ELECTED TO 1977)
Donald L. White 1967 - 1977
Robert L. Pinet 1957 - 1967
Winton A. Winter 1957 - 1957
Milo L. Harris 1953 - 1956
Floyd H. Coffman 1949 - 1953
Clive H. Owen (Republican)1931 - 1949
Geo. A. Byrd 1921 - 1931
M. F. Short 1917 - 1921
R. H. Harrison 1913 - 1917
H. W. Chaffee 1909 - 1913
Clara Kaiser Nov 1908 - 1909
L. C. Crittenden (Republican)1905 - Nov 1908
Peter Kaiser 1901 - 1905
John H. Harrison 1897 - 1901
C. P. Crouch 1895 - 1897
S. W. Case 1891 - 1895
James A. Purdy 1887 - 1891
G. W. Pulse Sep 1880 - 1887
A. Franklin 1873 - Sep 1880
Jacob Sumstine Oct 1866 - 1873
(Sumstine appointed Oct 1866 upon the death of Judge Tulloss.)
William Tulloss 1861 - Oct 1866
Jacob A. Marcell Nov 1857 - 1861
David Laury 1959 -
Richard S. Roberts 1951 - 1959
Wm. S. Markham 1949 - 1951
Homer N. Flora (Republican)1941 - 1949
J. B. Barr 1939 - 1941
W. L. Jacobus 1931 - 1939
H. J. Chenoweth 1929 - 1931
W. L. Jacobus 1913 - 1929
V. E. Lawrence 1911 - 1913
H. L. Kennedy (Republican)1907 - 1911
Alexander Taggart 1903 - 1907
J. G. VanScholack 1898 - 1903
Wm. M. Ewing 1894 - 1898
F. C. Herr 1890 - 1892
Fred E. Grant 1886 - 1890
H. D. Williams 1884 - 1886
J. G. Pierce 1882 - 1884
E. K. Kellenberger 1880 - 1882
J. T. Paramore 1870 - 1880
A. H. Dow 1866 - 1870
Asa Harris 1864 - 1866
G. W. Perkins 1863 - 1864
J. O. Allen 1862 - 1863
J. B. Bingham 1860 - 1862
Russell Savage 1993 - Pres
LeRoy Wasmund 1989 - 1993
Merle Haas (Republican)1985 - 1989
Roy E. Swank 1981 - 1985
LeRoy Wasmund 1977 - 1981
Joe Ferns 1973 - 1977
George Atchison 1965 - 1973
Cecil Vining 1957 - 1965
Frank Betz 1949 - 1957
H. L. Gault (Republican)1945 - 1949
E. E. Crouch 1937 - 1945
W. L. Johnston 1933 - 1937
H. W. Shoger 1929 - 1933
Joseph O. Mills 1921 - 1929
W. B. Lomas 1913 - 1921
C. H. Seiler 1909 - 1913
W. B. Lomas 1904 - 1909
William Martin 1901 - 1904
John M. Byrd 1898 - 1901
John S. Tulloss 1892 - 1898
G. C. Aiken 1889 - 1892
P. J. Fredericks 1883 - 1889
J. T. Baker 1880 - 1883
William Leonard 1878 - 1880
William Church 1876 - 1878
Thomas Tutcher 1874 - 1876
A. Riddle 1872 - 1874
William Stickel 1870 - 1872
Gardner Hayden 1989 - Pres
Earl Sink (Republican)1985 - 1989
Roger Keith 1981 - 1985
A. E. Coffman 1977 - 1981
Victor Warren 1973 - 1977
Don A. Yockey 1969 - 1973
Don Averill 1965 - 1969
J. H. Button 1957 - 1965
Lee Bonar 1949 - 1957
Ben Nitcher (Democrat)1941 - 1949
D. W. Batdorf 1937 - 1941
H. R. Finch 1933 - 1937
Otto Milam 1929 - 1933
Edmund Lister 1923 - 1929
Otto Milam 1917 - 1923
J. F. Berlin 1913 - 1917
W. B. Hutchinson 1905 - 1913
Joseph Rawlins 1899 - 1905
A. E. Clark 1896 - 1899
William H. Moherman 1890 - 1896
A. McDonald 1887 - 1890
J. F. Patton 1884 - 1887
John F. Lamb 1878 - 1884
Thomas Tutcher 1876 - 1878
Hiram Allen 1874 - 1876
J. B. Richey 1872 - 1874
Henry Shively 1870 - 1872
Charles W. Mavity 1983 - Pres
Carmen Peffley 1979 - 1983
Jack E. Davis 1975 - 1979
Lee Nichols 1967 - 1975
Earl Richardson (Democrat)1959 - 1967
Homer A. Reeves 1955 - 1959
W. R. Lancaster 1947 - 1955
Martin F. Strafuss 1939 - 1947
E. N. Heinlein 1935 - 1939
J. H. Springer 1923 - 1935
John Z. Clark 1915 - 1923
A. Morrow (Republican)1907 - 1915
E. M. Sheldon 1900 - 1907
F. A. Wilkinson 1897 - 1900
Milo R. Harris 1894 - 1897
J. L. Hawkins 1891 - 1894
Bennett Taylor 1888 - 1891
C. L. Robbins 1882 - 1888
W. S. Whisenand 1879 - 1882
Silas Allison 1878 - 1879
E. E. Fuller 1878 - 1878
C. L. Robbins 1875 - 1878
S. H. Barnett 1872 - 1875
Isaiah Pile 1870 - 1872
Thompson Jones 1868 - 1870
Isaiah Pile 1868 - 1870
Alva B. Taylor 1868 - 1870
James N. Foster 1867 - 1868
Jacob Sumstine 1867 - 1868
John Rickets 1866 - 1867
Samuel Holladay 1866 - 1867
Jaspar St John 1866 - 1867
John Richetts 1864 - 1866
Jacob Sumstine 1864 - 1866
H. P. Welsh 1864 - 1866
D. E. Stephens 1862 - 1864
Isaiah Pile 1862 - 1864
H. P. Welsh 1862 - 1864
James Smith 1861 - 1862
Isaiah Pile 1861 - 1862
J. A. Marcell 1861 - 1862
(elected until 1977)
Laverne Graves 1988 - 1994
Barbara Holman 1983 - 1988
Ruby Sanford 1971 - 1983
Christina Woke 1959 - 1971
Milo H. Harris 1955 - 1959
Christina Woke (Republican)1939 - 1955
Ann M. Shiras 1935 - 1939
Mary O. Stewart 1929 - 1935
Ethel M. High 1925 - 1929
John L. High 1913 - 1925
Ben Bowers 1909 - 1913
John C. Quin (Republican)1905 - 1909
R. S. Parker 1901 - 1905
Joseph Ernst 1897 - 1901
E. S. Kirkpatrick 1895 - 1897
E. S. Robinson 1891 - 1895
John A. T(F)row 1889 - 1891
D. C. Young 1885 - 1889
S. L. Patrick 1884 - 1885
E. H. Paramore 1881 - 1884
S. L. Patrick 1875 - 1881
E. M. Sheldon 1873 - 1875
F. A. Wilkerson 1869 - 1873
John Walruff 1864 - 1869
James Fitton 1863 - 1864
G. W. E. Griffith 1861 - 1863
A. R. Banks 1860 - 1861
Joseph Welsh 1859 - 1860
L. McArthur Oct 1858 - Apr 1859
Laura Sutton (Democrat)1975 - Pres
Bruce Spears 1955 - 1975
Emile J. Barnes 1951 - 1955
Florence King (Republican)1943 - 1951
David J. Price 1939 - 1943
Don Harbison 1933 - 1939
J. R. Finley 1925 - 1933
D. K. Emerson 1917 - 1923
J. F. Preshaw 1913 - 1917
Fred Baldwin 1909 - 1913
J. L. Turner (Republican)1905 - 1909
J. H. Bell 1903 - 1905
J. A. Davenport Jr. 1898 - 1903
J. K. Bailey 1894 - 1898
O. M. Wilber 1890 - 1894
T. F. Ankeny 1886 - 1890
L. Altman 1884 - 1886
A. H. Sellers 1880 - 1884
George D. Stinebaugh 1868 - 1880
H. F. Sheldon 1864 - 1868
Alfred Hitchcock 1862 - 1864
G. W. E. Griffith 1861 - 1862
R. Cowden 1860 - 1861
Larry Wright 1993 - Pres
Wendell Barker 1981 - 1993
Jim Clark 1977 - 1981
Robert L. Pinet 1973 - 1977
R. Michael Latimer 1969 - 1973
Myron S. "Jack" Steere 1965 - 1969
Donald L. White 1956 - 1965
Richard C. "Jack" Byrd 1955 - 1955
William S. Bowers 1951 - 1955
Myron S. Steere 1945 - 1951
John C. Quin 1945 - 1945
(Newland entered military; tendered his resignation in Mar 1945.)
Bert E. Newland (Republican) 1939 - 1945
John B. Pierson 1937 - 1939
J. L. Sheldon 1935 - 1937
C. E. Halloren 1931 - 1935
Ralph E. Page 1929 - 1931
B. F. Bowers 1923 - 1929
R. R. Redmond 1917 - 1923
John C. Quinn 1915 - 1917
F. A. Waddle 1913 - 1915
Ralph E. Page 1911 - 1913
Walter B. Pleasant (Republican)1903 - 1911
E. L. Branson 1899 - 1903
William A. Deford 1897 - 1899
H. N. Welsh 1895 - 1897
F. A. Waddle 1891 - 1895
C. W. Smart 1889 - 1891
John Deford 1887 - 1889
C. B. Mason 1885 - 1887
H. C. Mechem 1884 - 1885
Harlan P. Welsh 1883 - 1884
(Welsh appointed upon death of Meigs in Jul 1883.)
Charles R. Meigs 1883 - 1883
William Littlefield 1881 - 1883
W. L. Parkinson 1879 - 1881
H. C. Hughbanks 1877 - 1879
H. C. Mechem 1875 - 1877
A. W. Benson 1873 - 1875
J. O. W. Paine 1869 - 1873
John K. Harrison 1867 - 1869
H. P. Welsh 1865 - 1867
P. P. Elder 1860 - 1865
J. H. Lewis 1868 - 1870
C. L. Robbins 1866 - 1868
William Parkinson 1864 - 1866
William Delano 1864 - 1865
J. S. McFadden 1862 - 1864
William Nicholas 1861 - 1862
(Note. In 1861 and 1862, Franklin, Allen, and Anderson counties made up the 10th
district, which was allowed six representatives. In 1861, Franklin county sent two, and in
1862, three representatives out of the six allowed the district.)
1861
Warren Wirt Henry Lawrence (Republican)10th
Jacob A. Marcell (Republican)10th
1862
Jacob A. Marcell (Republican)10th
Daniel Mulford Valentine (Republican)10th
William Ross Wagstaff (Democrat)10th
1863
George Washington Ewing Griffith (Republican)58th
Harmon V. Beeson (Republican)59th
1864
Isaiah Pile 58th
James N. Smith 59th
1865
Hugh A. Cook (Radical Republican)58th
James Hanway (Radical Republican)59th
1866
William Pennock (Democrat)58th
Jacob Griffin Rees (Republican)59th
1867
Joshua Marsden Luce (Republican)58th
William E. Kibbe (Republican)59th
1868
James N. Foster (Republican)58th
Harlan Pyle Welsh (Republican)59th
1869
John McClenahan (Republican)58th
Theodore Crawford Bowles (Republican)59th
1870
George T. Pierce (Republican)58th
James Hanway (Republican)59th
1871
Joshua Marsden Luce (Republican)58th
Harlan Pyle Welsh (Republican)59th
1872
William H. Clark (Republican)50th
William Henry Schofield (Republican)51st
1873
E. J. Nugent 50th
William Bateman 51st
1874
C. B. Mason (L I)50th
Joseph H. Harrison (Ref.)51st
1875
Peter Percival Elder (Republican)50th
James L. Foster (Ref.)51st
1876
Peter Percival Elder (Republican)50th
Joshua Dunnuck (Republican)51st
1877
R. E. Jenness (Republican)27th
Peter Percival Elder (Republican)28th
(Speaker of the House; resigned as speaker on 6 Feb 1877)
1879
James Robb (Republican)27th
Joseph A. Towle (Republican)28th
1881
C. P. Crouch (Republican)27th
Walter B. Bass (Republican)28th
1883
James A. Barnett (Republican)19th
Peter Percival Elder (Republican)20th
1885
L. W. Hostetter (Republican)19th
William H. Woodlief (Republican)20th
1887
John V. Pollinger (I)15th
L. W. Hostetter (Republican)16th
1889
James M. Mechem (Republican)15th
Horace Jeremiah Smith (Republican)16th
1891
Peter Percival Elder (All.) (Speaker of the House)
J. P. Stevens (All.)16th
1893
Robert H. Semple (PP)15th
1895
John T. Baker (Republican)15th
1897
James Connolley Simmons (D)15th
1899
William Stewart Finley (Republican)15th
John T. Baker (Republican)16th
1901
William Stewart Finley (Republican)15th
Amos Lister Lingard (Republican)16th
1903
William Stewart Finley (Republican)15th
William S. Jenks (Republican)16th
1905
James Harvey Ransom (Republican)15th
Alfred Washburn Benson (Republican)16th
1907
James Harvey Ransom (Republican)15th
J. W. Reynard (Republican)16th
1909
Frank H. Stannard (Republican)15th
Thomas W. Harrison (Republican)16th
1911
Aldamar Phipps Elder (Democrat)13th
1913
William Guy Tulloss (Democrat)13th
1915
William Guy Tulloss (Democrat)13th
1917
Nick Johnson (Democrat)13th
1919
John Morton McWharf (Republican)13th
1921 - 1923
Edward Poston Pendleton (Republican)13th
1925 - 1927 - 1929
Walter Pleasant (Republican)13th
1931 - 1933
John F. Staadt (Republican)13th
1935 - 1937 - 1939 - 1941
Asa Finch Converse (Republican)13th
1943 - 1945 - 1947 - 1949 - 1951
E. J. Foote (Republican)13th
1953 - 1955 - 1957 - 1959
Robert A. Anderson (Republican)13th
1961 - 1963
Wayne Angell 15th
1965
Wayne Angell 16th