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Home > Special Collections > Municipal Reference Library > Links > Historical >Public Works Commissioners Historical Lists of Public Works Commissioners Detroit Commissioners of Public Works from 1874 to Present     Harvey King 1874-1875 Nicol Mitchell 1874-1877 Alexander Chapoton 1874-1878, 1884-1887 Stanley G. Wright 1876 William Purcell 1877-1879 Frederick Ruehle 1878-1881 William Langley 1879-1890 Benj. Briscoe 1880-1883 John B. Stoutenberg 1882-1885 Thomas McGrath 1886-1889 James Hanley 1888-1890 Michael J. Griffin 1890-1891 Jacob Guthard 1890-1896 John B. Mulliken 1891 John McVicar 1891-1897 James Dean 1891-1895 D.W.H. Moreland 1896-1899 Hermann F. Kallman 1897-1900 James W. Millen 1898-1900 Marshall H. Godfrey 1900 D.W.H. Moreland 1901-1902 Wm. H. Maybury 1903-1904 Jacob J. Haarer 1905-1913 George H. Fenkell 1913-1917 H. H. Esselstyn 1918-1919 George Engel July 1, 1919 to May 15, 1920 Joseph A. Martin May 15, 1920 to Aug. 31, 1923 John W. Reid Sept. 1, 1923 to Mar. 24, 1930 John Gillespie March 24, 1930 to July 25, 1930 Joseph S. Stringham July 26, 1930 to Jan. 22, 1931 Joseph E. Mills Jan. 23, 1931 to Jan. 31, 1932 Laurence G. Lenhardt Feb. 1, 1932 to Jan. 31, 1938 Henry E. Beyster Feb. 1, 1938 to Dec. 29, 1939 Wm. M. Walker Jan. 2, 1940 to May 19, 1944 G.C. Richards Aug. 7, 1944 to Feb. 17, 1947 Ernest Jones Feb. 17, 1947 to Jan. 5, 1948 T.C. Hanson Jan. 6, 1948 to June 11, 1949 C.D. Warner June 13, 1949 to June 9, 1954 G.C. Richards Sept. 9, 1954 to July 1, 1966 Robert E. Toohey Sept. 1, 1966 to June 30, 1968 Robert P. Roselle July 1, 1968 to Jan. 17, 1970 Alfred Beraducci Mar. 6, 1970 to Clarence Russell 1973 James W. Watts 1974 Alvin O. Johnson 1985 Conley Abrams 1986 Clyde Dowell 1994 Stephanie Green 2000  James Jackson 2003 Cathy L. Square 2006 Return to Historical Lists of Detroit Officials